Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > >>man cron gives: > > >> > > >>crontab [-u user] file > > >> > > >>'file' being the important part, methinks. ;) > > > > > >I'm not sure what you mean ... If you're wondering, I'm using the > > > main crontab file (/etc/crontab), as right now there's

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:04 pm, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are > >>u

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the file format is slightly different, and misuse of the system crontab for regular jobs is the c

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:48:19 -0700 kstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:15 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > > > On Thursday 26

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:15 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > >

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 > > > > > > Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PR

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >wrote: > >>On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 > >> > >>Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

Paul Schmehl said: > Just out of curiosity, why would you use cron rather than > /etc/periodic/daily? If you want something to run at a different time of day than the daily scripts. You could modify /etc/crontab and move the time around, but the rest of the scripts still follow and most of us hav

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:48:53AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: > Here is my setup which works: > > crontab -e yeilds > 0 1 * * * /bin/sh /root/bin/port.sh 2>&1 | mail root > > port.sh contains: > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup /etc/ports-supfile > /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu > /usr/local/

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:07:26 AM -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree d

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

Here is my setup which works: crontab -e yeilds 0 1 * * * /bin/sh /root/bin/port.sh 2>&1 | mail root port.sh contains: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/cvsup /etc/ports-supfile /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu /usr/local/sbin/portversion -v | /usr/bin/grep "<" then this gets mailed to me everyday with the

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 > > > > Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 > > Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question > > has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's > > i

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:19 am, Subhro Kar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, you need to read the manual page for cvsup. It is > clearly stated that the option -L shows the amount of verbosity cvsup > maintains. If you are running it from inside a script, then either > you have to >

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has > been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. > > I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree daily.

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

First of all, you need to read the manual page for cvsup. It is clearly stated that the option -L shows the amount of verbosity cvsup maintains. If you are running it from inside a script, then either you have to reduce the verbosity to 1 ie, the command will be cvsup -g -L 1 supfile OR redirect th

RE: crontab question involving cvsup

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Tinnin Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:07 AM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: crontab question involving cvsup OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered