Re: Re: Bombing builds during the 7:00-hour

Nick Moffitt <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:31:26 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
begin  Nick Moffitt  quotation:
> begin  Paul Gray  quotation:
> > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
> > > Speaking of changes to the ebb and flow of the lnx-bbc-cvs list
> > > traffic, I've noticed we're no longer getting this error that always
> > > cropped up at around ~7am.
> > Spoke too soon :)
> 	It was always unpredictable.  It's such an odd error that I
> really have no idea what's tickling it.

	GAH!  I just figured it out.

	We build in /var/tmp.

	It's tmpreaper!  The licenses are rsync'd over, and preserve
modification/access times etc.  Since tmpreaper is one of the last few
cron.daily jobs to run, it usually starts blasting away stuff around
6-7am!

	Ha ha.  I am teh champion.

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