From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 0:13:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C27537B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 00:13:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26636 invoked by uid 100); 9 Mar 2001 08:13:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15016.37033.942475.347993@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 02:13:29 -0600 To: "Ben Compton" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Question In-Reply-To: <24585563@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Compton types: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Please don't do that - I have no idea what to do with an application/ms-tnef data file on my FreeBSD box. > ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C0A80F.0B049780 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Quick question....could someone point me to a good site on the Internet with > a tutorial of Crontabs? I want to set up a cron job to cvsup my ports > collection every night and I always seem to have a pain setting crontabs. I > need to know where to include this in the crontab file for root in /etc and > if not where should I set it up? Might I suggest you look into periodic instead of cron for this? Basically, write a shell script to do the cvsup, then drop it into /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily. 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