Perforce

rajeshkumar created the topic: Recovery Procedures in Perforce If the database files become corrupted or lost, either because of disk errors, a hardware failure such as a disk crash, the database can be recreated with your stored checkpoint and journal. it can at least provide a general guideline for recovery from the two most common…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Basic Perforce Administration Basic Perforce Administration A. User maintenance tasks 1. Resetting passwords 2. Creating users / Deleting users / Setting user access 3. Disabling the automatic creation of users 4. Cleaning up files left open by former users B. Administrative operations 1. Setting the server security level 2. Obliterating files…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Perforce Server Installation and Configuration p4d – Perforce Server p4 – Perforce Client p4win – Perforce Windows Client Install P4 Server in Unix 1. Copy p4d & p4 in /usr/local/bin 2. Give permission such as chmod +x p4 & chmod +xp4d 3. Create Perforce ROOT directory such as P4ROOT=/usr/local/p4_directory 4. Give…

scmuser created the topic: Perforce Password strength defined Certain combinations of server security level and Perforce client software releases require users to set “strong” passwords. A password is considered strong if it is at least eight characters long, and at least two of the following are true: • Password contains uppercase letters • Password contains…

scmuser created the topic: Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. Hi, I am trying to loginb perforce using command line using following command… p4 -p -u Abinash_Misra sync //depot/branchname/… but i am getting following error.. Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset. Any idea how to pass password over command line to login perforce? rajeshkumar replied…

rajeshkumar created the topic: can’t cobbler writable file issues in Perforce Hi, I often get this issues in perforce client can’t cobbler writable file But when do force sync this error go and instead of doing force sync and spending hell lots of time, is there any ways where i can get rids of this…

scmuser created the topic: Error while deleting perforce users Hi, I am deleting perforce user using following command… p4 user -d -f Ani but i got some error message such as … User Anil has file(s) open on 3 client(s) and can’t be deleted. any help on this mnanjala replied the topic: Re: Error while…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Ways to Pass Password in Triggers file in Perforce Option 1 If your Perforce server is set to security level 2 or lower you can have your trigger script run as the same user every time (typically a “background” user). Then, either have the server’s P4PASSWD environment variable set to the…

scmuser created the topic: rsync in perforce I have to replicate my perforce server to remot location.. I am trying somthing different this time of not using p4 prox but rsync i can setup a rsync to sync all filesystem from one perforce server instance to another perforce server but how to replicate metadata which…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Run perforce Server as a Service Run perforce Server as a Service OR boot automatically when system restart Template of p4d file under /etc/init.d ======================================== #! /bin/sh # # chkconfig: 35 95 05 # description: Perforce revision control system server. # umask 022 # Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions . /etc/p4d.conf…

scmuser created the topic: Create a perforce Branch bases on Label Hi, Can you tell me how to create a Perforce Branch based on perforce label? rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: Create a perforce Branch bases on Label I found very good explanation on google… * Create a branch specification in Perforce. Go to View,…

scmuser created the topic: Perforce Lable using changelist number or Date/time Hi, I am trying to create a label using Perforce specific change list number or depends on Data and time for entire branch. Could you please help me with it? scmuser replied the topic: Re: Perforce Lable using changelist number or Date/time Ww need…

scmuser created the topic: Need innovative Idea in Perforce Server Administration Hi, I have one scenario and I am looking for solution in Configuration Tools such as Perforce. Can you please let me know is there any common solution available in Perforce or i will have to developed a new application. Scenario: I have 50…

scmuser created the topic: open for write: Permission denied in perforce While login to perforce server, i got following issues…Any help? -bash-3.00$ ./p4 -p perforceserver:1600 -u scm login Enter password: Fatal client error; disconnecting! open for write: /user/scm/tmp.10149.21: Permission denied Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at…

rajeshkumar created the topic: How to create new group in Perforce. Step 1: Login to perforce server using super account.  p4 -p -u login Step 2: Create a group using following command  p4 -p -u group Step 3: This will prompt you a form in which you need to add LDAP ids which…

scmuser created the topic: Perforce tickets issues Some of the devs on my team have been asking about whether Perforce tickets really need to be bound to IPs. It’s pretty annoying to have to re-authenticate when switching from wireless to wired. When we first switched to OTP, I don’t recall it working this way, but…

rajeshkumar created the topic: force users to upgrade their perforce client software How to force users to upgrade their perforce client software kb.perforce.com/article/1363/how-to-forc…heir-client-software Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @ twitter.com/RajeshKumarIn Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel stories…

rajeshkumar created the topic: To know Password last changed for this perforce user I have come across 2 ways.. 1/. User form field will have following options… PasswordChange: Read-only The date and time of the user’s last password change. If the user has no password, this field is blank. OR p4 -p IP:PORT -u users…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Operation ‘dm-SubmitChange’ failed in perforce Solution for following error… Operation ‘dm-SubmitChange’ failed. Sequence error: next changelist ‘Change 73’ already exists! Regards, Rajesh Kumar Twitt me @ twitter.com/RajeshKumarIn Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Prompting password repeadetly in perforce Some checks need to be done. 1. Check .p4ticket folder exist or not? .p4ticket can be found iin %USERPROFILE%\p4tickets.txt(windows) and $HOME/.p4tickets(other OS) 2. Check .p4ticket file permission and its directory permission. May be its not able to write entry in .p4ticket due to permission issues. 3….

rajeshkumar created the topic: Rollback vs Back Out in perforce Rollback vs Back Out in perforce Both of these operations restore a set of files to a previous state. The difference being: Back Out Submitted Changelist X The restore operation is restricted to the files submitted in changelist X. Roll Back Rolling back can involve…

rajeshkumar created the topic: perforce user deletion issues. Today i was trying to delete some perforce users and found some strange issues as below; Problem p4 user -d -f raj User rajhas file(s) open on 2 client(s) and can’t be deleted p4 -u raj-c -H opened Access for user ‘raj’ has not been enabled by…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Blocking “dot” files in perforce. Following Info was shared with me by My mentor Todd / Stanton. I hope this might helpful for perforce community. You can block “.” dot files in perforce using protect table only which will not be applicable for admin but users. list group * * -//…/.*…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Use of Perforce Spec Depot. Use of Perforce Spec Depot. There was many questions in my mind such as Is there any way to find out old access given to perforce user? Is there any way to find group history? The solution which i found out is:spec depot the solution was…

nitish created the topic: Perforce Commons Hi everyone, Does anyone installed Perforce commons? I can’t get it to work. I am not using the OVA image but I want to install it from scratch. Thank you for your help. rajeshkumar replied the topic: Re: Perforce Commons Hi checco007, I never tried this tools. Seems to…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Configuring line-ending settings in perforce Unix uses one byte, 0x0A (LineFeed), while windows uses two bytes, 0x0D 0x0A (Carriage Return, Line feed). To Find the files which has Windows line endings egrep -l $’\r\n’ * in Bash To Convert files from DOS TO unix dos2unix -U file if the file has…

rajeshkumar created the topic: How to add files in perforce with characters @, #, *, and %? How to add files in perforce with characters @, #, *, and %? To add files containing the characters @, #, *, and %, use the -f flag. This flag forces literal interpretation of characters otherwise used by…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Some Common Perforce Error Problem: Perforce client error: TCP send failed. write: socket: Connection reset by peer Solutions: These issues occur only when perforce client and perforce server is not able to receive or sent data packets to each other. This can be due to various reason. Check following… 1. Fix…

rajeshkumar created the topic: Determining the last changelist synced to in Perforce 7 down vote accepted The simple answer is: p4 changes -l “…#>have” You need the quotes to avoid your shell doing redirection. You can trivially iterate over the changes and call “p4 describe” on each one. You can get a full diff by…