From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 21 9: 7:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE2E37B4EC for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1LH7UR40498; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f1LH7Tj18877; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:07:29 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102211707.f1LH7Tj18877@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: all@biosys.net Subject: Re: cvsup confusion In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83>, Allen Landsidel wrote: > > Second, I don't mess with cron.. why clutter up your crontab when you have > /etc/periodic/* at your disposal? > > I just stick a script in /etc/periodic/weekly and it does the cvsup, [...] There is a problem with this approach. Suppose everybody did it that way. Then at exactly the same time each week, everybody in a given time zone would be trying to CVSup from their nearby mirrors. The mirrors would quickly fill up, and you'd be retrying for hours, along with everybody else in your time zone. It's much better to pick a random time and put it in your crontab. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message