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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:28:32 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h
Message-ID:  <20000625222832.A19646@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org>; from gsutter@zer0.org on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:00:29PM -0700
References:  <200006221927.MAA49212@freefall.freebsd.org> <39532EE4.B536C551@3-cities.com> <86wvjgbu09.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <3953978B.D3EAD145@3-cities.com> <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org>

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On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:00:29PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote:

> > worked. This time cvsup didn't update the files. If people run cvsup
> > as an unattended cron job, they will never see the two failure
> > messages.
> 
> That sounds like an awfully good reason not to run it as a cron job.
> Instead, why not put it in /etc/periodic/daily?  Then it will get
> logged and mailed to root.

You're both forgetting that cron does mail the output to the
user...

$ crontab -l | grep cvsup
0  6  *  *  *   /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L3 ~/lib/supfile

I get the output in my mail everyday, and promptly delete it without
looking.

Matt

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Those who forget how cron(8) 
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * works are doomed to reimplement it.


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