Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 15:59:14 -0500 From: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> To: Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>, Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cron and cvsup Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020719155914.025dd7b8@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <71ED4DBF1EA19A45A3765CA9548BE30A2124@server1.electrosoftso lutions.com>
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At 02:46 PM 7.19.2002 -0600, Thomas Connolly wrote: >Hello, >I'm brand new to FreeBSD and Unix both. Could someone provide me with an >example of how to create a both a cron tab and a cron job to run cvsup once >every month? I need it explained in terms a 2 year old could understand. >I've looked at the man pages for cron and cvsup but it's over my head. I >was told in the newbies list to post all my questions here so I apologize to >all you guru's here. > >Thanks in advance, > >Tom > 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 echo "Ports had been updated at server" | mail -s "Server CVSup" mail_to_me cd /usr/ports make index | sendmail mail_to_me Cron: # Run cvsup every month on the 1st day 0 * 1 * * /usr/local/bin/cvsupscript Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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