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To: "Robert L Sowders" <rsowders@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>
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>         To:     "Ben Compton" <peabody007@deepspacenine.com>
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>         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
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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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> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>                                               http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
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