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On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:03:09 +1000
blade- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Has anyone made a script that will, emerge sync, emerge -UDp world 
> outputs the results to email?
> I am not to good at shell scripting, I have been trying to base it off
> a script I have that updates the root hints and email the results but
> I am not getting any where. I want it to be a daily cronjob so I dont
> have to do it manually everyday.
> 

Try something like this :


cat > /usr/local/sbin/update.sh <<EOF
#! /bin/bash
emerge sync >/dev/null 2>&1
emerge -vup world 
EOF
chmod +x  /usr/local/sbin/update.sh


And for root's crontab:
0 0  * * *       /usr/local/sbin/update.sh



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