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On Tue, 10 May 2005 01:01:01 +0800 (CST), michael zhou <oochina_org at yahoo.com.cn> wrote: >Hello everyone, > > In http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/LockServer, I have learned how to lock my cvs repository to backup.But when I try to do it, I meet a big trouble. > First,in my computer,it can't identify Directory flag,so i use "Lock Write Full|c://cvsserver/cvsroot" insteadly.But when i using another user login, it still can checkout and commit.It seems don't function. > > Could anyone tell me why this happend?My CVSLOCK is 2.2. > If you really want to stop CVS access during backup the most straigthtforward method would be to issue: net stop cvsnt then do the backup and afterwards net start cvsnt I don't see any advantage in using lockserver for this purpose. And I don't even think it is necessary to stop cvsnt for backups... /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)