Re: trouble with cvs

["William F. Maton" <wmaton ryouko dgim crc ca>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, James Green wrote:

> > On 18 August, 1999 - William F. Maton sent me these 1,8K bytes:
> > 
> > > Remember that anoncvs.gnome.org is 4 systems.  I run 
> > > 
> > > anoncvs.gnome.org       A       209.81.8.253
> > > anoncvs.gnome.org       A       130.239.18.151
> > 
> > This one is mine. rsync'ing every hour at minute 56.. Takes under 5
> > minutes to run.. Has a 100mbit connection to the Swedish backbone.
> 
> Well, around 10:30pm (BST) tonight it took four (maybe three?) attempts at
> cvs -z3 update -Pd control-center to get rid of (taking an example line):

Remember, in order to report problems, always, always, always do a netstat
in another window when this runs.  Otherwise you can't tell with which
server you are experiencing the problem.

> > Maybe there should be some info-page somewhere about the anoncvs
> > servers? (whom to contact when problems arise etc?)
> 
> Well, making sure every server works would be a good start ;-)

Proper reporting goes much further too. :-)

wfms