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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:13:17 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ufs/ffs ffs_softdep.c softdep.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006261612020.61351-100000@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000625210029.A79299@azazel.zer0.org>

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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Gregory Sutter wrote:

> On 2000-06-23 09:59 -0700, Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> > Akinori -Aki- MUSHA wrote:
> > > At Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:33:24 -0700,
> > > Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> wrote:
> > > > This isn't working. Because of the links, I'm getting
> > > >
> > > > Cannot calculate checksum for "/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_softdep.c": No
> > > > such file
> > > >  or directory
> > > 
> > > Obviously, you can remove those two symlinks and do a CVSup again.
> > > (You could run it with -s option to save the time)
> > 
> > True! My point is that the update isn't occuring. I just happened to
> > be sitting at the computer when the message flashed by on the window.
> > I would have never seen it otherwise. I don't usually scan the log for
> > a cvsup failure. Perhaps, this is something I should be doing but
> > people get used to cvsup always working. The file may be bad but cvsup
> > 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.

Or, use a cron job such as this:

30 5 * * * root /usr/local/bin/cvsup -P m /usr/home/ports-supfile 2>&1 |
mail -s "Ducky Ports cvsup" root



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