From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 17:33:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABFA16A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms-smtp-03-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00E643FDD for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wegster@mindcore.net) Received: from mindcore.net (rdu163-100-105.nc.rr.com [24.163.100.105]) hB61XEwQ014714; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:33:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3FD131DA.1090806@mindcore.net> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:33:14 -0500 From: Scott W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Lum References: <20031206011837.9625.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031206011837.9625.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions, X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 01:33:19 -0000 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" > > >