CVSCAN(1) BSD General Commands Manual CVSCAN(1)NAMEcvscan — generate a scanfile for cvsync and cvsyncd
SYNOPSIScvscan [-hqv] [-r release] -c file [name]
cvscan [-Fhqv] [-L | -l] [-r release] -f file directory
DESCRIPTIONcvscan is a small utility mainly for cvsyncd. During a synchronization,
cvsyncd scans and compares a directory structure of each collection on
the client with one on the server. When a scanfile is used on the
server, cvsyncd does not scan a directory structure and use the informa‐
tion from the scanfile instead. This allows to reduce disk i/o load rad‐
ically.
However, if the server is the origin or the upstream server does not use
cvsync, the scanfile has to be generated on the server. cvscan is the
utility for that purpose.
Since cvsync automatically generates scanfiles for each collection with
the keyword ‘scanfile’, cvscan is usually not needed on the client.
The following options are available:
-F Doesn't follow a symbolic link. By default, cvscan follows a
symbolic link and handle it as is.
-L Forces cvscan to set ‘errormode’ to ‘fixup’. Refer the keyword
‘errormode’ in cvsync or cvsyncd.
-c file
Specifies the configuration file for cvsyncd.
-f file
Specifies the output file. The file must be writable.
-h Print the usage of cvscan to standard error.
-l Forces cvscan to set ‘errormode’ to ‘ignore’. Refer the keyword
‘errormode’ in cvsync or cvsyncd.
-q Be silent mode.
-r release
Specifies the release type. Refer the keyword ‘release’ in
cvsync or cvsyncd.
-v Be verbose mode.
EXIT STATUS
The cvscan utility exits EXIT_SUCCESS on success, and EXIT_FAILURE if an
error occurs.
SEE ALSOcvsup2cvsync(1), cvsync(1), cvsync2cvsup(1), cvsyncd(1)BSD Apr 10, 2004 BSD
