> I've gotten cvsup working correctly. It is following > 5_1_RELENG and "." for ports. I want to do a daily > check using crontabs and have created one under root. > However, my daily mail says that it can't find cvsup. > IS this just a simple fix by putting in the full path > or am I missing something?
Yes, probably. Why don't you give it a shot? > Second, > I was following the portupgrade tutorial for > upgrading your installed ports at onlamp. > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html > > I ran "portupgrade -arR" about 9pm on Thursday. It is > now 5pm on Friday and it's STILL running. > My box isn't the fastest on the block, but it is a > Dual P2 300 (running SMP) with 256 megs of RAM and am > running X , Apache2, and PHP aside from the standard > setup/ > I guess my question is more a concern in that I > inadvertantly installed ALL the ports in the > collection. Did I? Manning portupgrade, the -a says > "upgrade all INSTALLED" with the "r"'s being forward > and backwards recursive, but 20 hours? Well, that depends which and how many ports you have installed on your box. I have a 400Mhz K6-III here, and updating Gnome 2.4 to 2.5 took me more that half a day of CPU-time (there were also some other ports that got updated). If you have a lot of ports installed of which quite a lot are outdated, it might indeed take a while until portupgrade is finished. You can post a list of installed ports if you are unsure. Just a guess: Are that your second CPU isn't idle? It is possible to have `make' execute multiple jobs simultaneously (with the -j parameter). To make this the default, you should add the following line to /etc/make.conf MAKE_ARGS=-j N where N is the number of (compilation, assembly, ...) jobs, that are started concurrently. For your dual processor system, I'd recommend N=2 or N=4 (having more processes than CPUs can speed up non-CPU bound, jobs given that your I/O system is fast enough). Simon
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