Re: CVS filling /tmp (was Re: FreeBSD CVS Question (answered!))

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh_at_starjuice.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:25:28 +0200
On (2004/01/14 10:21), Robert Watson wrote:

> While I'm not quite sure of the rhyme or reason, what's occuring is that
> CVS is creating a mirror directory layout of the subtree you're operating
> on in /tmp.  This means you'll actually likely run out of inodes before
> space, FWIW.  I usually set TMPDIR to point it at /usr/tmp to avoid this
> being a problem.

Yup, pretty much standard practice when setting up pserver in inetd is:

cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -T /var/tmp ... pserver

Ciao,
Sheldon.
Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 06:25:29 UTC

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