On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio squawked: > On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? > > > > I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary > > instructions > > Well, you'll be amazed by how easy it is to do it :) > > Just log in as root and type 'crontab -e' to edit the crontab. There you > should have something like: > * * * * * emerge --sync >
And don't just put something like the above in your crontab. You want something like 0 1 * * * emerge --sync or something (the example here give 1am every day). If you put just five *s, the rsync server would be very, very annoyed at you. W -- "I'm a little teapot short and stout, here is my handle and here is my ... other ... handle ... OH GOD I'M A SUGARPOT!!" ~Mnemennth Sortir en Pantoufles: up 184 days, 8:44 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
