From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 14:50:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907B21065679 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0C48FC1E for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n1IEo6Sq091753 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n1IEo6CM091752; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 GMT Message-Id: <200902181450.n1IEo6CM091752@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Steven Kreuzer Cc: Subject: Re: misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Steven Kreuzer List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:07 -0000 The following reply was made to PR conf/131438; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Steven Kreuzer To: Maxim Konovalov Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:47:55 -0500 On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > Hello Steven, > > [...] >>> Description: >> >> Rather then run csup each night to update src or ports via an entry >> in roots crontab I figured it would be cleaner to write a script and >> add it to periodic so that you can specify a csup file and have its >> output sent to you via email with the rest of the daily periodic >> scripts >> >> The attached patch adds support for that but sets it to off by >> default. > > While I like the idea I should note this will hurt our cvsup > infrastructure world wide. periodic(8) runs at the same time (3am) on > all hosts in the same time zone. That means it'll runs 600.csup at > same time with some deviation depending of the execution time of the > previous daily scripts and thus overload local cvsup mirrors. Hi Maxim- Thats a pretty good point that I didn't take into consideration when I was writing this. You can close this PR. Thanks -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer