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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:40:47 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1017006050.706b53@mired.org>
To:        "Lee Mark Mercado" <mercadolee@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: daily routine in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily
Message-ID:  <15511.45151.32876.505187@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <F151hbmfowJZjvkwVmT0001cbb9@hotmail.com>
References:  <F151hbmfowJZjvkwVmT0001cbb9@hotmail.com>

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In <F151hbmfowJZjvkwVmT0001cbb9@hotmail.com>, Lee Mark Mercado <mercadolee@hotmail.com> typed:
> it doesnt seem to be working for me :(
> 
> i have this on my /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/666.cvsup-ports
> ---------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile
> echo "Ports had been updated" | mail lee
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> but running it manually works fine : sh 666.cvsup-ports

That's not how it's run by periodic. The file needs to be executable,
so you can just do ./666.cvsup-ports.

	<mike
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