From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:32:44 +0100

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, George Styles mused:
> I just have a bash script which tries, tries, tries again until it books out OK
> (assumes that you have already removed the rockbox directory)
>
> until test -d rockbox
> do
> echo "Trying Checkout..."
> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous_at_cvs.rockbox.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rockbox co rockbox
> done

You should be able to do a simple

while ! cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous_at_cvs.rockbox.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rockbox co rockbox; do sleep 60; done

Sleeping between attempts really is a good idea.

-- 
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 dig up the road to clear the blockage because it is covered with the
 wrong type of tarmac.' --- British Telecom, via Mark Lowes

Received on 2003-07-31