[cvsnt] Net start fails...

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Feb 10 22:06:06 GMT 2004


Stephen Yates wrote:

> I am trying to write a backup script to backup my CVS repository. To make
> sure nobody is using the repository I stop CVS, then perform the backup, and
> finally attempt to restart CVS using the command 'net start cvs'. This
> command fails with the error 3523 after about 15 seconds. The strange thing
> is I still have access to the repository, but it seems to be left in an
> unstable state as far as windows is concerned. If I try to now stop the
> service using either the command line or the cvsnt control panel applet it
> informs me "Couldn't stop service: The service cannot accept control
> messages at this time". Has anybody else come across this problem?
> 
> I am running Window Server 2003 with CVS NT 2.0.26.
> 
I should work OK, although I haven't done much with with win2003, 
there's nothing special about the service code (it rarely changes, as 
it's just generic stuff).

Is there anything in the error log that might explain it?

Tony



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