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Date:      Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:29:58 +0100
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Lystic Emsen <lystic1@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fetching distfiles via cron does not download...
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Lystic Emsen skrev 2010-11-02 12:44:

>>
>> According to the handbook this command is supposed to do that.
>>
>> portsnap -I cron update
>>
>>
> Yeah, you are right, I missed that.  However, the problem is that you didn't
> specify the full path to portsnap.  That will cause it to fail and the&&
> operator won't let it proceed.  When using cron, you need to specify the
> full path because cron doesn't have access to all the environment variables
> your normal shell does.
>
> -- Lystic
>
> http://UnixNews.net<http://unixnews.net/>;
>
>
If what you say is correct then I shouldn't get the result of 
pkg_version -vIL telling me that there are ports that need an upgrade, 
should I?

/Leslie



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