RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
David, Just to be clear CVSNT is a Unix/Linux based system (that also runs on windows). CVSNT has some features that CVS doesn't like mergepoints/audit/changesets/lockserver etc etc. Regards, Arthur Barrett -Original Message- From: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:26 PM To: Arthur Barrett; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? Hi Arthur, Again thanks for the interest. We're mainly a UNIX/Linux based operation, but there are some windows users out there (poor souls). Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 20:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, If you are using CVSNT as a client and CVS as a server then they were simply watches. However if you have CVSNT on the server then I suggest you subscribe to the CVSNT list instead: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt If you are using CVS as a server and CVSNT (or TortosieCVS/WinCVS) extensively as a client then I recommend upgrading the server to CVSNT 2.5.03 (available for free for Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows). CVSNT server generally works best with CVSNT client and has many additional features for commercial software development such as mergepoints (visual tracking of when and where merges occur), change sets ( group and track and merge changes by an arbitrary group), failsafe audit to database (if audit fails then so does the client operation) and a separate contention lock service. Regards, Arthur Barrett -Original Message- From: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:45 AM To: Arthur Barrett; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? Hi Arthur, Thanks for you comments, but too late! They've gone. They were very old and applied to users who've now left. Are you sure these are different at the repository end, if cvsnt is being used? I can see how that could be.. Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 04:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on Linux/Unix/Windows. In this case you should definitely not touch these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's. Regards, Arthur Barrett ** ** *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com ** ** *** ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
Hi Arthur, Again thanks for the interest. We're mainly a UNIX/Linux based operation, but there are some windows users out there (poor souls). Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 20:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, If you are using CVSNT as a client and CVS as a server then they were simply watches. However if you have CVSNT on the server then I suggest you subscribe to the CVSNT list instead: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt If you are using CVS as a server and CVSNT (or TortosieCVS/WinCVS) extensively as a client then I recommend upgrading the server to CVSNT 2.5.03 (available for free for Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows). CVSNT server generally works best with CVSNT client and has many additional features for commercial software development such as mergepoints (visual tracking of when and where merges occur), change sets ( group and track and merge changes by an arbitrary group), failsafe audit to database (if audit fails then so does the client operation) and a separate contention lock service. Regards, Arthur Barrett -Original Message- From: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:45 AM To: Arthur Barrett; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? Hi Arthur, Thanks for you comments, but too late! They've gone. They were very old and applied to users who've now left. Are you sure these are different at the repository end, if cvsnt is being used? I can see how that could be.. Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 04:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on Linux/Unix/Windows. In this case you should definitely not touch these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's. Regards, Arthur Barrett ** ** *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com ** ** *** ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
Hi Arthur, Thanks for you comments, but too late! They've gone. They were very old and applied to users who've now left. Are you sure these are different at the repository end, if cvsnt is being used? I can see how that could be.. Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 04:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on Linux/Unix/Windows. In this case you should definitely not touch these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's. Regards, Arthur Barrett *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com *** ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
David, If you are using CVSNT as a client and CVS as a server then they were simply watches. However if you have CVSNT on the server then I suggest you subscribe to the CVSNT list instead: http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt or news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt If you are using CVS as a server and CVSNT (or TortosieCVS/WinCVS) extensively as a client then I recommend upgrading the server to CVSNT 2.5.03 (available for free for Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows). CVSNT server generally works best with CVSNT client and has many additional features for commercial software development such as mergepoints (visual tracking of when and where merges occur), change sets ( group and track and merge changes by an arbitrary group), failsafe audit to database (if audit fails then so does the client operation) and a separate contention lock service. Regards, Arthur Barrett -Original Message- From: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:45 AM To: Arthur Barrett; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? Hi Arthur, Thanks for you comments, but too late! They've gone. They were very old and applied to users who've now left. Are you sure these are different at the repository end, if cvsnt is being used? I can see how that could be.. Cheers, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 May 2006 04:38 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete? David, I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on Linux/Unix/Windows. In this case you should definitely not touch these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's. Regards, Arthur Barrett *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com *** ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
David, I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on Linux/Unix/Windows. In this case you should definitely not touch these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's. Regards, Arthur Barrett ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
Stuart, Mark, Many thanks for your help - I've removed the old fileattr files and things look much better. Sorry about my signature - nothing I can do about it - please filter everything after --. Some lists chop off everything after: --LongSig Does that work here? Thanks, David Carter-Hitchin. -- Royal Bank of Scotland Interest Rate Derivatives IT 135 Bishopsgate LONDON EC2M 3TP Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088 -Original Message- From: Stuart Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 May 2006 00:59 To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM Cc: info-cvs@gnu.org Subject: Re: old fileattr files - safe to delete? We've got a bunch of CVS/fileattr files in our repository that are ancient. I think I'm right in saying that the only way that these get created are when people run 'cvs watch' and 'cvs edit'. The people who did this have long since gone and so have their logins. Is it safe to just delete the fileattr files to get rid of the watches or is there an official way? You're correct that the only way fileattr files are created in the repository is through cvs watch and cvs edit. CVS removes fileattr and the CVS subdirectory when there are no more watchers or editors for any of the files in that directory. A combination of $ cvs unedit $ cvs watch off $ cvs watch remove should get rid of the fileattrs although since you've lost the old logins this might not be trivial. It should be entirely safe to remove the CVS directories by hand from the repository itself. Good luck, Stuart. *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. Visit our websites at: http://www.rbos.com http://www.rbsmarkets.com *** ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
Re: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've got a bunch of CVS/fileattr files in our repository that are ancient. I think I'm right in saying that the only way that these get created are when people run 'cvs watch' and 'cvs edit'. The people who did this have long since gone and so have their logins. Is it safe to just delete the fileattr files to get rid of the watches or is there an official way? The CVS/fileattr files are there to do book keeping on advisory locking and 'cvs watch' files. You should be able to remove any of those files without hurting the correct operation of the repository. So, yes, it is safe to just delete the fileattr files. When cvs 1.12.14 comes out, there will be a way for a cvs 'admin' to remove specific user locks or watches from specific files. I do not believe there is any command to just find all of them and purge a specific user that has had their login removed. -- Mark PS: A brief note about your dislaimer: *** The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Registered in Scotland No 90312. Registered Office: 36 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh EH2 2YB. Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority This e-mail message is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If the message is received by anyone other than the addressee, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete the message from your computer. Internet e-mails are not necessarily secure. The Royal Bank of Scotland plc does not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. This disclaimer is really silly when sent to a public e-mail list. Your message is in a number of different archives and will be unlikely to be deleted. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEdKL4Cg7APGsDnFERAi3yAKCSFkQmwruE/B5D1ruBFhgcGg0SPACfQpR9 tWCbIrBQnYB5v+Cd0TDsBjQ= =svp3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ info-cvs mailing list info-cvs@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
