From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 11:37:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D75B737B401 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.0/ignatz) with ESMTP id f93IbEO85645; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 11:37:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" To: Ernst de Haan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating? In-Reply-To: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl> Message-ID: X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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