Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:01:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>, Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron and cvsup Message-ID: <20020719220159.GA31880@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <200207192147.g6JLl1xQ062615@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <3.0.5.32.20020719155914.025dd7b8@mail.sage-one.net> <200207192147.g6JLl1xQ062615@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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In the last episode (Jul 19), Gary Jennejohn said: > "Jack L. Stone" writes: > > Tom: For starters, here is a script with the cron below the script: > > > > cvsupscript > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/src/sage-supfile > > I suggest adding -1 to the command line, otherwise cvsup will try > forever to connect on failure, resulting in massive numbers of cvsup's > running. I'm speaking from experience here, since I made that > mistake when I first added cvsup as a cron job. I also add "-l /tmp/cvs.LCK", to prevent multiple cvsups from running at the same time. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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