[Dxspider-support] 1200 bit/s and CVS

[Kjell Jarl]

Thanks Dirk, I will use that next time.
1200 bit/s or a diskette plus 20 km are my options.
73/Kjell

Dirk Koopman wrote:
> 
> On 23 Apr 2001 08:37:42 +0200, Kjell Jarl wrote:
> > Hi
> > I would like to warn you not to do as I did when upgrading.
> > I started a CVS upgrade late in the evening over my 1200 bit/s radio. As
> > it took so long time I went to bed. In the morning I had forgotten it
> > all. After work, I found that the node was off. I had to go to the site
> > and press the reset button (the PC had went out of virtual memory and
> > was killing processes it seemed).
> >
> 
> A 1200bps radio link is not recommended but what you could do to reduce
> the traffic and still all you actually need:-
> 
> cd /spider
> cvs -z3 update -d data perl cmd
> 
> This will reduce the amount of traffic as a small change in the wrong
> place in the manuals can trigger downloads of many (very slightly
> altered) manual pages.
> 
> > It seems dxspider will crash the system if not restarted after
> > upgrading?
> 
> It can do if there are incompatible changes to the cmd subtree vis-a-vis
> the old versions of the modules in the perl tree.
> 
> There were such changes this time.
> 
> Dirk G1TLH
> 
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