From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 3 7:44:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA4237B437 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:44:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f93Ei8719713; Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:44:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 09:44:07 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ernst de Haan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating? Message-ID: <20011003094407.C50826@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 01), Ernst de Haan said: > Hi, > > If I would like to run cvsup every night or so, and have the output sent to a > certain email address, how would I do that? Should I just install a script in > /usr/local/share/etc/rc.d/ or is there a better way of doing this? rc scripts only run on bootup. You probably want a script in /etc/periodic/daily/ which pipes its output to "sendmail root"; see daily/450.status-security for an example. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message