From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 19 14:46:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BFE37B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com (mailout08.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD8243E58 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@jennejohn.org) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout08.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 17VfaA-0002lZ-00; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:46:38 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.235.124.103]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 17Vfa5-1YePmyC; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:46:33 +0200 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.12.5/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6JLl1xQ062615; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:47:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200207192147.g6JLl1xQ062615@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Thomas Connolly , Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron and cvsup Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:59:14 CDT." <3.0.5.32.20020719155914.025dd7b8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:47:01 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jack L. Stone" writes: > Tom: For starters, here is a script with the cron below the script: > > cvsupscript > #!/bin/sh > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/sage-supfile I suggest adding -1 to the command line, otherwise cvsup will try forever to connect on failure, resulting in massive numbers of cvsup's running. I'm speaking from experience here, since I made that mistake when I first added cvsup as a cron job. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message