Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 03:24:17 -0800 From: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ben Compton" <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Question Message-ID: <OF5C1BD606.EAEBA8D6-ON88256A0A.003E692A@wr.usgs.gov>
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Easy way to cvsup,
Copy the relevant cvsup parts from /etc/defaults/make.conf to
/etc/make.conf
Edit to your taste
cd /usr/src
make update.
Easier to cron this way.
Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Sent by: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
03/09/2001 12:13 AM
To: "Ben Compton" <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Crontab Question
Ben Compton <peabody007@deepspacenine.com> types:
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Please don't do that - I have no idea what to do with an
application/ms-tnef data file on my FreeBSD box.
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> Quick question....could someone point me to a good site on the Internet
with
> a tutorial of Crontabs? I want to set up a cron job to cvsup my ports
> collection every night and I always seem to have a pain setting
crontabs. I
> need to know where to include this in the crontab file for root in /etc
and
> if not where should I set it up?
Might I suggest you look into periodic instead of cron for this?
Basically, write a shell script to do the cvsup, then drop it into
/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily. That way, the cvsup gets integrated
into the rest of the daily system processing, and you can be
absolutely sure it runs before (or after, if you wish) your daily
backups.
<mike
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