diffs are "looping"

[john heasley]

It is most likely that someone mucked with the CVS tree.  check the
log files for cvs errors/notices and 'cvs status configs/sw101.de-cix.net'
should the "up-to-date" (or whatever the string is).

If it is not up-to-date, rm the file and cvs update.

Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:23:41PM +0100, Nipper, Arnold:
> Since a couple of days output of do-diffs for one switch (catalyst 3550, (C3550-I9Q3L2-M), Version 12.1(12c)EA1) is "looping". That means evertime do-diffs is ran, I get exactly the same diff, which is like
> 
> Index: configs/sw101.de-cix.net
> ===================================================================
> retrieving revision 1.21
> diff -u -4 -r1.21 sw101.de-cix.net
> @@ -22,26 +22,21 @@
>   !Variable: NVRAM/Config file
>   !Variable:       buffer size:    393216
>   !
>   !Flash: Directory of flash:/
> - !Flash:     2  -rwx        7751   Dec 12 2003 13:55:35  config.text
> + !Flash:     2  -rwx        7770   Dec 20 2003 14:09:41  config.text
>   !Flash:     4  -rwx          16   Mar 01 1993 00:00:34  env_vars
> 
> 
> Anyone seen this before? My first guess was that some file permissions were odd but everything looks fine.
> 
> Looking at the archive didn't show anything what could fit.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Arnold