Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:33:14 -0500 From: Scott W <wegster@mindcore.net> To: Gary Lum <g_lum@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions, Message-ID: <3FD131DA.1090806@mindcore.net> In-Reply-To: <20031206011837.9625.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20031206011837.9625.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com>
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Gary Lum wrote: >I have two questions, the first regarding CVSup and >cron jobs, the second about port upgrade. > >I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following >5_1_RELENG and "." for ports. I want to do a daily >check using crontabs and have created one under root. >However, my daily mail says that it can't find cvsup. >IS this just a simple fix by putting in the full path >or am I missing something? > > cron jobs generally need their PATH set explicitly, as I don't believe they source even /etc/profile....so it's always a good idea to use explicit pathnames... >Second, > I was following the portupgrade tutorial for >upgrading your installed ports at onlamp. > >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html > >I ran "portupgrade -arR" about 9pm on Thursday. It is >now 5pm on Friday and it's STILL running. > My box isn't the fastest on the block, but it is a >Dual P2 300 (running SMP) with 256 megs of RAM and am >running X , Apache2, and PHP aside from the standard >setup/ > I guess my question is more a concern in that I >inadvertantly installed ALL the ports in the >collection. Did I? Manning portupgrade, the -a says >"upgrade all INSTALLED" with the "r"'s being forward >and backwards recursive, but 20 hours? > > Highly possible if you have software like X and OpenOffice installed.... Scott >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now >http://companion.yahoo.com/ >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >
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