Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:31:59 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>, "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatically cvsupdating?Crist, Message-ID: <200110050932.f959W4x00821@zaphod.euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011003210400.N8391@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <200110011017.f91AHRE02734@zaphod.euronet.nl> <047b01c14c73$92122fe0$059b140a@dan> <20011003210400.N8391@blossom.cjclark.org>
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Your proposed solution sounds like the best I heard so far. Thanks!
Ernst
On Thursday 04 October 2001 06:04, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:23:50PM -0700, Dan O'Connor wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > This is how I do it every Friday night...
> >
> > In /etc/crontab:
> >
> > # Run cvsup every Friday night at 10:00 pm.
> > 0 22 * * 5 root /usr/local/bin/cvsrun | sendmail root
> >
> > (Note: change the fifth field ("5") to "*" to get it to run every night.
> > Change the sendmail target to whatever user you want the email sent to.)
> >
> > Then, create an executable file /usr/local/bin/cvsrun:
> >
> > echo "Subject: `hostname` weekly cvsup run"
> > echo "Content-type: text/html"
> > echo ""
> > echo ""
> > echo "<PRE>"
> > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/stable-supfile
> > echo "</PRE>"
> >
> > This should get you started.
>
> The /usr/src/Makefile has this type of functionality built in. See the
> 'update' target. Put the appropriate settings for,
>
> # CVSup update flags. Edit SUPFILE settings to reflect whichever
> distribution # file(s) you use on your site (see
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/README for more # information on CVSup and these
> files). To use, do "make update" in /usr/src. #
> #SUP_UPDATE= yes
> #
> #SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup
> #SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
> #SUPHOST= cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
> #SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> #PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
> #DOCSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile
>
> In your /etc/make.conf and edit your supfiles accordingly. Add a line
> like,
>
> # CVSup source code and ports once a week, do it during wee hours
> Saturday 0 4 * * 6 cvs cd /usr/src; make
> update >> /var/log/cvsup.log 2>&1
>
> To your /etc/crontab. If you wish to send the output to a specfic
> email address, pipe the output of the command to the appropriate
> address rather than the redirects shown.
--
Ernst de Haan
EuroNet Internet B.V.
"Come to me all who are weary and burdened
and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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