From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 8 6:35:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h000.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 072B737B6B8 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 06:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (cpmta 14603 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2001 06:16:14 -0800 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.206) with SMTP; 8 Feb 2001 06:16:14 -0800 X-Sent: 8 Feb 2001 14:16:14 GMT From: "Otter" To: "'Cliff Sarginson'" , , "'FreeBSD'" Subject: RE: 4.2-STABLE (Feb 4 2000): pcm hiccups Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:23:25 -0500 Message-ID: <000c01c091da$b3757010$1401a8c0@zoso> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff, FYI: tkcron (found in the ports collection) makes adding/editing cron jobs almost idiot-proof. Then another thought comes to mind: "Make something idiot-proof and someone else will just make a better idiot." =] It's worth looking into if you're not sure how to setup cron jobs manually. -Otter -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Cliff Sarginson Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:35 AM To: igorr@crosswinds.net; FreeBSD Subject: 4.2-STABLE (Feb 4 2000): pcm hiccups > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 04:35:00PM +1000, Robert wrote: > > What it does mean is that even if one does a cvsup on a weekly basis say, > > then the _sources_ are always up to date, and IF one then needs to do an > > update/upgrade/kernel build whatever, then one is always using the latest > > sources. Now THAT makes sense. So I can go ahead an set up a cron job, that > > simply calls the cvsup/supfile say once a week. Can you give this dummy (I mean me!) the command line for that.. I find myself in a lot of confusion about this.. *sigh* Cliff > Edit /etc/weekly.local and you don't need setup cronjob. > > -- > Igor Robul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", > Sochi, Russia > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message