Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 06:42:19 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@usgs.gov> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ben Compton" <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab Question Message-ID: <15016.53163.31952.855160@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <OF5C1BD606.EAEBA8D6-ON88256A0A.003E692A@wr.usgs.gov> References: <OF5C1BD606.EAEBA8D6-ON88256A0A.003E692A@wr.usgs.gov>
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Robert L Sowders <rsowders@usgs.gov> types: > 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. True. But it's equally easy to put in periodic that way, which would be my suggestion. <mike > 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: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > Please don't do that - I have no idea what to do with an > application/ms-tnef data file on my FreeBSD box. > > > ------=_NextPart_000_001C_01C0A80F.0B049780 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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