On 12:18 Mon 15 May , Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio > squawked: > > On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to > > > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? > > > > > > I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary > > > instructions > > > > Well, you'll be amazed by how easy it is to do it :) > > > > Just log in as root and type 'crontab -e' to edit the crontab. There you > > should have something like: > > * * * * * emerge --sync > > > > And don't just put something like the above in your crontab. You want > something like > > 0 1 * * * emerge --sync > or something (the example here give 1am every day). If you put just > five *s, the rsync server would be very, very annoyed at you. >
Yeah, sorry for that. I should've changed that to more convenient values. -- Pablo Antonio (AKA crazy2k) http://www.pablo-a.com.ar/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
