Re: CVS - Automated builds

[Nils9]

Tell us whats the problem you encountered.
We ran into inetd protection, its something like- if more than 250 requests per
minute from same IP address to the same service then inetd stops the
service for 10 minutes. And there is no way (in RadHat62) to configure it.
Thats basically was the biggest pain, it was slow to make builds because 
we had to use delays in the script, and even then it kept failing.
Also, there was mess with branches, but looks like this is somewhat clear
to me finally ;-) (except the vendor branch, still have no idea why its 
"special").

-Nils Jakobsons
SWH Technology

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lamar Seifuddin" <address@hidden>
To: "Nils9" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: CVS - Automated builds


> Hello,
> 
> I have created an automated build script that checks out files from CVS,
> also.
> (CVS runs on Solaris)
> 
> It works fine when I build from one src tree, but when I build from
> multiple
> src trees (cronjob), I run into problems.    I am not sure if it's
> CVS-related or broken
> code.
> 
> What type of problems have you encountered?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 
> Lamar
> 
> 
> 
> Nils9 writes:
> >
> > I have people running automated build scripts which fetch files from
> CVS
> > (CVS runs on RedHat), and now it happens that the inettd locks down
> > the service for 10 minutes - flood protection. We tried to insert
> waitstates
> > between CVS requests, it helped, but it gets soo long to build that
> way.
> > What are your reccomendations on this topic? How to disable this inetd
> 
> > feature?  Could not find anything in manpages.
> 
> Go read the inetd man page again, carefully.  I've never seen an inetd
> that didn't have *some* way of adjusting the rate limit documented on
> the man page.  Sometimes it's a command line option to inetd, other
> times it's part of the entry in the config file.  And check that you're
> really running inetd -- some systems use xinetd instead, in which case
> you need to read its man page instead.
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> I hate being good. -- Calvin
> 
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