From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 09:00:04 2004 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 187E316A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:00:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from therub.org (pantheon-ws-13.direct.hickorytech.net [216.114.200.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D1243D2F for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:00:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from drue by therub.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ao4vg-0003F3-00 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:05:44 -0600 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:05:43 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040203180543.GC10972@therub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Dan Rue Subject: keeping up to date with cron 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: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 17:00:04 -0000 Hey Gang, I am somewhat new to the FreeBSD stuff. After getting used to the cvsup way of life, I added this to my crontab: # Package database maintaince 25 2 * * * root /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvsup/ports-supfile && /usr/local/sbin /portsdb -uU 0 1 * * 6 root /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aF # Should probably do this manually from time to time #0 4 * * 6 root /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -aRy Note that I don't actually run portupgrade from cron anymore. Any suggestions on better flags or ways of doing any of these tasks? What do you all have in your crons? Note that this is a desktop system, not a production server. But what if it was a production server? Shuold I do anything differently? tia, dan