Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:50:06 GMT From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic Message-ID: <200902181450.n1IEo6CM091752@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/131438; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@exit2shell.com> To: Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/131438: Add csup to Periodic Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:47:55 -0500 On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > Hello Steven, > > [...] >>> Description: >> >> Rather then run csup each night to update src or ports via an entry >> in roots crontab I figured it would be cleaner to write a script and >> add it to periodic so that you can specify a csup file and have its >> output sent to you via email with the rest of the daily periodic >> scripts >> >> The attached patch adds support for that but sets it to off by >> default. > > While I like the idea I should note this will hurt our cvsup > infrastructure world wide. periodic(8) runs at the same time (3am) on > all hosts in the same time zone. That means it'll runs 600.csup at > same time with some deviation depending of the execution time of the > previous daily scripts and thus overload local cvsup mirrors. Hi Maxim- Thats a pretty good point that I didn't take into consideration when I was writing this. You can close this PR. Thanks -- Steven Kreuzer http://www.exit2shell.com/~skreuzer
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