From owner-cvs-all Sun Jun 25 22:28:54 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D942737B86C; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:28:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA19716; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 22:28:32 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Kent Stewart , 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> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org>; from gsutter@zer0.org on Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 09:00:29PM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 * Those who forget how cron(8) http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * works are doomed to reimplement it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message