Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Ernst de Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0110031132040.4143-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Ernst de Haan wrote: > If I would like to run cvsup every night or so, and have the output > sent to a certain email address, how would I do that? Should I just > install a script in /usr/local/share/etc/rc.d/ or is there a better > way of doing this? my fave suggestion is to use crontab to run 'make update' from /usr/src. be sure you read through /etc/defaults/make.conf, and read up on how this works. you'll need to adapt or create your own cvsup config files to make this work properly. my crontab entry tends to be *very simple* ### update source code, 2am, mon, wed, fri 0 2 * * mon,wed,fri (cd /usr/src ; make update) there's not much more to it, other than making sure your files are set up in /etc/make.conf or /etc/defaults/make.conf. -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "if my thought-dreams could be seen.. "they'd probably put my head in a gillotine" -- Bob Dylan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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