Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:04:00 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: Ernst de Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating? Message-ID: <20011003210400.N8391@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <047b01c14c73$92122fe0$059b140a@dan>; from dan@mostgraveconcern.com on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:23:50PM -0700 References: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl> <047b01c14c73$92122fe0$059b140a@dan>
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:23:50PM -0700, Dan O'Connor 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?
>
>
> This is how I do it every Friday night...
>
> In /etc/crontab:
>
> # Run cvsup every Friday night at 10:00 pm.
> 0 22 * * 5 root /usr/local/bin/cvsrun | sendmail root
>
> (Note: change the fifth field ("5") to "*" to get it to run every night.
> Change the sendmail target to whatever user you want the email sent to.)
>
> Then, create an executable file /usr/local/bin/cvsrun:
>
> echo "Subject: `hostname` weekly cvsup run"
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
> echo ""
> echo "<PRE>"
> /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/stable-supfile
> echo "</PRE>"
>
> This should get you started.
The /usr/src/Makefile has this type of functionality built in. See the
'update' target. Put the appropriate settings for,
# CVSup update flags. Edit SUPFILE settings to reflect whichever distribution
# file(s) you use on your site (see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/README for more
# information on CVSup and these files). To use, do "make update" in /usr/src.
#
#SUP_UPDATE= yes
#
#SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup
#SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
#SUPHOST= cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
#SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
#PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
#DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile
In your /etc/make.conf and edit your supfiles accordingly. Add a line
like,
# CVSup source code and ports once a week, do it during wee hours Saturday
0 4 * * 6 cvs cd /usr/src; make update >> /var/log/cvsup.log 2>&1
To your /etc/crontab. If you wish to send the output to a specfic
email address, pipe the output of the command to the appropriate
address rather than the redirects shown.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
cjclark@jhu.edu
cjc@freebsd.org
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