From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 7:52:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from foo31-146.visit.se (foo31-146.visit.se [62.119.31.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE75137B400 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from martin@localhost) by foo31-146.visit.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3BEq6601006; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:52:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from martin) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:52:06 +0200 From: Martin Karlsson To: "Kirk R. Wythers" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup and /etc/daily.local Message-ID: <20020411145205.GA869@foo31-146.visit.se> Mail-Followup-To: Martin Karlsson , "Kirk R. Wythers" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1018532036.96296.9.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1018532036.96296.9.camel@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-PGP-Keyid: 0x9C924660 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5970 BE22 2C33 4D8F 53FD 7E34 66FF 9332 9C92 4660 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ 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 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Kirk R. Wythers [2002-04-11 09.33 -0400]: > When I created my cvsupfile (following the instructions in the online > handbook), there was a statement generated that read, "run > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L2 /etc/cvsupfile or place in /etc/daily.local > for autoupdate" > > I have manually run /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L2 /etc/cvsupfile a couple > of times, but I am interested in automating this process. I don't see a > file called daily.local in /etc/ on my system. Should I create this file > myself with a line "/usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L2 /etc/cvsupfile"?=20 If you want it to be run as a "daily" process, I think you can put it in an executable file (named nnn.whatever, where nnn is lower than 999, but higher than the file with the next-to-highest number) in /etc/periodic/daily. Make sure it is owned by root and is executable. =20 --=20 Martin Karlsson 0x9C924660 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8taMUZv+TMpySRmARAnpHAJ95vIIEdwMkGWn92kp29bfXl/1b8gCdEpey +FLrG3C6GcKc5ONkpY0ilBM= =lFPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message