RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?

[CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM]

Hi Arthur,

Again thanks for the interest.  We're mainly a UNIX/Linux based operation,
but there
are some windows users out there (poor souls).

Cheers,

David Carter-Hitchin.
--
Royal Bank of Scotland
Interest Rate Derivatives IT
135 Bishopsgate
LONDON EC2M 3TP

Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 27 May 2006 20:38
> To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
> 
> 
> David,
> 
> If you are using CVSNT as a client and CVS as a server then they were
> "simply" watches.
> 
> However if you have CVSNT on the server then I suggest you 
> subscribe to
> the CVSNT list instead:
> http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
> or
> news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt
> 
> 
> If you are using CVS as a server and CVSNT (or TortosieCVS/WinCVS)
> extensively as a client then I recommend upgrading the server to CVSNT
> 2.5.03 (available for free for Linux/Unix/Mac/Windows).  CVSNT server
> generally works best with CVSNT client and has many 
> additional features
> for commercial software development such as mergepoints 
> (visual tracking
> of when and where merges occur), change sets ( group and 
> track and merge
> changes by an arbitrary group), failsafe audit to database (if audit
> fails then so does the client operation) and a separate "contention
> lock" service.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Arthur Barrett 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM 
> [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Sunday, 28 May 2006 12:45 AM
> To: Arthur Barrett; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
> 
> 
> Hi Arthur,
> 
> Thanks for you comments, but too late!  They've gone.  They were very
> old and applied to users who've now left.  Are you sure these are
> different at the repository end, if cvsnt is being used?  I 
> can see how
> that could be..
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David Carter-Hitchin.
> --
> Royal Bank of Scotland
> Interest Rate Derivatives IT
> 135 Bishopsgate
> LONDON EC2M 3TP
> 
> Tel: +44 (0) 207 085 1088
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 27 May 2006 04:38
> > To: CARTER-HITCHIN, David, GBM; address@hidden
> > Subject: RE: old fileattr files - safe to delete?
> > 
> > 
> > David,
> > 
> > I know some people in your company are using CVSNT on 
> > Linux/Unix/Windows.  In this case you should definitely not touch 
> > these fileattr files since they contain the permissions/ACL's.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 
> > Arthur Barrett
> > 
> 
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