In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Drayton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote a small script to cvsup stable, ports and doc every
> couple of days by running cvsup <supfile> > <logfile> for each
> collection. Somehow this script appears to have 'gone wrong' leaving
> several copies of cvsup running at once. Is running more than one
> copy of cvsup at once likely to have damaged /usr/src or /usr/ports?
I don't know whether it would mess up your files or not, but it's
definitely something that won't work right in general. Check out
cvsup's "-l" option in the cvsup man page to keep this from happening.
Or run it under lockf(1).
> Sorry if these are common questions - I searched the archives but
> couldn't find anything.
Searching the archives is fine. But don't forget, there's a great
big manual page too.
John
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