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Lehman, Curtis wrote: > In-between steps 1 and 4 could be several hours, but after step one the code > base will be broken until step 4 is done. How can I lock out all the users > from checking out or committing changes to the project? I don't want to > stop the CVS service on the server because that blocks the other unrelated > projects in the company from continuing to use CVS. I thought about writing > a pearl script to call from one of the CVSROOT files like commitinfo, but > that doesn't stop the checkout. Any suggestions? Check out the LockServer page in http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/LockServer , there's a tip there that might do what you're looking for: A way to lock all the files in a particular module until you cancel the lock. -- Glen Starrett