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Index of Subjects Hi all, Sounds like a very meeting and good solutions! Personally I've not had problems with RCS. Bytimes I've found it useful (restoring a deleated file) and I find the capability to edit files on-line extremely useful. Weeding out old RCS files for files that have been deleated is a bit of a pain (and many IPs forget to do this at all, resulting in a great proliferation of such). I can see that in some instances where the numbers of such files are large that this would chew up quota and hence pose problems. In general, if we can find mechanisms not to introduce RCS to users that are managing websites solely through FTP this would be advantageous (why make things more complicated?). Also, if there was a CRON regulated script that would periodically search directories and delete RCS/*.html,v files for which no equivalent *.html files exist, this would free IP editors from this tedious task and (presumably) free up a not inconsiderable amount of disk space. Carry on! ;-> Cheers, Chris On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, David L. Potter wrote: > > While there are certainly poor interactions between PPP, text dialup and > RCS the situation is not to my knowledge critical or seriously impacting > useability. > > I came away from the tech meeting last night under the impression that we > would: > > 1) ask Michael to strip out (or counsel me in stripping out) the RCS > hooks from ftpd. We'll do this as soon as possible... days, weeks... > > > This will leave only individuals editing on-line using RCS and we should > be clear that this is not a 'Pico' issue, it is an 'update' (CSuite script) > issue. > > This in itself should eliminate almost all of the problems associated > with ftp/ppp users. > > --- > > It has been further proposed (several weeks ago) that we would (for > several reasons including managing system load) develop a local back-up > capability that would allow us to restore a file without going to > Dalhousie. > > With this backup capacity in place we would stop supporting RCS except in > special instances. > > Tony for one has indicated he finds value in RCS and it would not really be > difficult to provide that functionality on a case by case basis... we've > used (are using) this model in a number of other instances and it has not > proved to be a significant problem for us to implement/manage. > > david potter >
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