Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: all@biosys.net Subject: Re: cvsup confusion Message-ID: <200102211707.f1LH7Tj18877@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83>
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In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83>, Allen Landsidel <all@biosys.net> wrote: > > Second, I don't mess with cron.. why clutter up your crontab when you have > /etc/periodic/* at your disposal? > > I just stick a script in /etc/periodic/weekly and it does the cvsup, [...] There is a problem with this approach. Suppose everybody did it that way. Then at exactly the same time each week, everybody in a given time zone would be trying to CVSup from their nearby mirrors. The mirrors would quickly fill up, and you'd be retrying for hours, along with everybody else in your time zone. It's much better to pick a random time and put it in your crontab. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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