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Re: Error while trying to import /etc into Subversion

From: Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt_at_satorlaser.com>
Date: 2006-04-03 17:51:13 CEST

On Sunday 02 April 2006 21:07, Man-Chi Leung wrote:
> $svn import -m "server config" etc svn+ssh://root@domain_name/export/
> home/svn/etc-conf
>
> ---------------------
> Error Message:
> ---------------------
> svn: Unknown or unversionable type for 'etc/cron.d/FIFO'
>
> -----------------------------------
> FIFO 's file size = 0 ! does it matter to SVN?
> ------------------------------------
> $/etc/cron.d 509$ls -al /etc/cron.d/FIFO
> prw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 28 19:02 /etc/cron.d/FIFO

That's not a file but a pipe (a communication channel, probably used to talk
with the cron daemon). Subversion obviously can't version those.

Uli

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