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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:33:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
To:        William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Script to run daily....
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02.9807301930580.7886-100000@tarski.philos.umass.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980730132416.wwoods@cybcon.com>

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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote:

> I have a question.....I wrote a little script that automates getting the ports
> collection updates via cvsup and the latest stable via cvsup. Lets call this
> script "alllup". I would like this script to be run daily and I understand
> there is a daily script somewhere.....how would I add my script "allup" to this?
> 
> ----------------------------------
> William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
> --> FreeBSD 2.2.7 <-- 
> Date: 30-Jul-98
> Time: 13:21:38
> ----------------------------------
> 
> 
I believe that's in /etc/periodic/daily, but although I'm no
expert, my guess is that people would recommend using your user
crontab. That's what I do.

Try "man 1 crontab" and "man 5 crontab" (I think.)

Greg


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