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Hmmm..
Would it be possible to manually lock a module so an administrator could
work on it (say, manually change a file name or clear out the watches) -
thus removing the necessity of taking down the *entire* server to perform
the above tasks?
It almost seems to me that this could be done without the lock server by
simply creating the appropriate lock files, but a locking/unlocking app
would be interesting...
__________
I should have known better than to trust the logic of a half-sized
thermocapsulary dehousing assister...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Hoyle [mailto:tmh at nodomain.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 10:22 AM
> To: Glen Starrett
> Cc: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
> Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: unlocking unkown user locks
>
>
> Glen Starrett wrote:
>
> > Trying to summarize what I saw here today. Is this true:
> >
> > --Lock server is installed / service set to automatic with server
> > components
> > --Lock Server is not enabled automatically
> > --To enable {instructions in prev message}
> > --Lock server purpose is to ensure dangling locks are cleaned up
> >
> > Does it do anything more than that? Is there other
> relevant things to the
> > lock server? I didn't see a lot on it in the docs, but
> then I wasn't
> > looking too closely either.
>
> That's basically it. In theory it can also be used for live
> monitoring
> of the repository, but nobody's ever written an app to do that.
>
> Because of the difficulty of finding out the owner of a file
> in NT, you
> often the the 'waiting for unknown users lock' message with
> filesystem
> locks. With lockserver you always know who has set the lock and from
> which machine.
>
> Tony
>
>
> --
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> about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
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