From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 30 16:30:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21233 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:30:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tarski.philos.umass.edu (nscs26p18.remote.umass.edu [128.119.179.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21227 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gp@philos.umass.edu) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by tarski.philos.umass.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA07953; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:33:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gp@philos.umass.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: tarski.philos.umass.edu: gp owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:33:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak X-Sender: gp@tarski.philos.umass.edu To: William Woods cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Script to run daily.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: > I have a question.....I wrote a little script that automates getting the ports > collection updates via cvsup and the latest stable via cvsup. Lets call this > script "alllup". I would like this script to be run daily and I understand > there is a daily script somewhere.....how would I add my script "allup" to this? > > ---------------------------------- > William Woods > --> FreeBSD 2.2.7 <-- > Date: 30-Jul-98 > Time: 13:21:38 > ---------------------------------- > > I believe that's in /etc/periodic/daily, but although I'm no expert, my guess is that people would recommend using your user crontab. That's what I do. Try "man 1 crontab" and "man 5 crontab" (I think.) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message