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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:47:01 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc:        Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>, Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cron and cvsup 
Message-ID:  <200207192147.g6JLl1xQ062615@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:59:14 CDT." <3.0.5.32.20020719155914.025dd7b8@mail.sage-one.net> 

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"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.

---
Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de



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