Question about cvsup...

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Sun Nov 18 20:17:42 PST 2007


On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:56:08PM -0800, Darren Reed wrote:
> Nearly every time I run cvsup from the command line (as root),
> I see large amounts of output like this for every file:
> 
> SetAttrs src/contrib/amd/fsinfo/wr_fstab.c,v
> 
> Is cvsup actually doing anything?
> Have I done something wrong in my config?
> (I run in with "cvsup -l lockfile -g -L 1 ncvs-supfile")

Maybe there is a umask difference between your interactive env and
your cron env. I use this line in my cvsup config file to make sure
the file permissions are the way I want them:

*default umask=002

John
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