Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-28 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Joshua Tinnin wrote: man cron gives: crontab [-u user] file 'file' being the important part, methinks. ;) I'm not sure what you mean ... If you're wondering, I'm using the main crontab file (/etc/crontab), as right now there's no need for me to use

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-27 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 04:04 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the

crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree daily. I've tried several different combinations without success, and lately this is

RE: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Tinnin Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 10:07 AM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: crontab question involving cvsup OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Subhro Kar
First of all, you need to read the manual page for cvsup. It is clearly stated that the option -L shows the amount of verbosity cvsup maintains. If you are running it from inside a script, then either you have to reduce the verbosity to 1 ie, the command will be cvsup -g -L 1 supfile OR redirect

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree daily.

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:19 am, Subhro Kar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, you need to read the manual page for cvsup. It is clearly stated that the option -L shows the amount of verbosity cvsup maintains. If you are running it from inside a script, then either you have to reduce

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect.

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread kstewart
On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Lucas Holt
Here is my setup which works: crontab -e yeilds 0 1 * * * /bin/sh /root/bin/port.sh 21 | mail root port.sh contains: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/cvsup /etc/ports-supfile /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu /usr/local/sbin/portversion -v | /usr/bin/grep then this gets mailed to me everyday with the

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, August 26, 2004 12:07:26 AM -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the archives, and I can't find that my question has been answered previously, but please forgive me if that's incorrect. I'm using (or rather trying to use) cron to update my ports tree

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Radek Kozlowski
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 11:48:53AM -0400, Lucas Holt wrote: Here is my setup which works: crontab -e yeilds 0 1 * * * /bin/sh /root/bin/port.sh 21 | mail root port.sh contains: #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/cvsup /etc/ports-supfile /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Charles Ulrich
Paul Schmehl said: Just out of curiosity, why would you use cron rather than /etc/periodic/daily? If you want something to run at a different time of day than the daily scripts. You could modify /etc/crontab and move the time around, but the rest of the scripts still follow and most of us have

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have searched the

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:07:26 -0700 Joshua Tinnin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread kstewart
On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:15 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:42 am, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Aug 2004

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:48:19 -0700 kstewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:15 pm, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 02:28 am, kstewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 01:09 am, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004

Re: crontab question involving cvsup

2004-08-26 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2004 08:28 am, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unlike the system crontab, user crontabs, including root's, are under /var/cron; the file format is slightly different, and misuse of the system crontab for regular jobs is the

crontab question

2004-02-19 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am running 5.1-release. I created the file /var/cron/tabs/root . It is owner root, group wheel. permissions are -rw--- I have the following entry in the file root 0 22 2-31 * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dept2/Marketing/ /data/Marketing 21 /r oot/rsync.log Of course the line

RE: crontab question

2004-02-19 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings, I am running 5.1-release. I created the file /var/cron/tabs/root . It is owner root, group wheel. permissions are -rw--- I have the following entry in the file root 0 22 2-31 * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dept2/Marketing/ /data/Marketing 21 /r oot/rsync.log Of

Re: crontab question

2004-02-19 Thread Matt Emmerton
Greetings, I am running 5.1-release. I created the file /var/cron/tabs/root . It is owner root, group wheel. permissions are -rw--- I have the following entry in the file root 0 22 2-31 * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av /dept2/Marketing/ /data/Marketing 21 /r oot/rsync.log Of course

Crontab question

2004-02-12 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am running 5.1-release. I have installed rsync from ports, and want to use it to archive. I want to add an entry to cron so it runs nightly. I didn't quite understand the man page when it came to arguments to the command you are running. ie 0 0 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -av

Re: Crontab question

2004-02-12 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 04:06:56PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am running 5.1-release. I have installed rsync from ports, and want to use it to archive. I want to add an entry to cron so it runs nightly. I didn't quite understand the man page when it came to arguments to the

Re: crontab question...

2003-11-01 Thread Jean-Baptiste Quenot
* Xpression: Hi guys, I was wondering if I have three script files on crontab and all they are executed at the same hour how it's function ??? AFAICT, cron forks a new process for each job scheduled at the same time. Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/

Re: crontab question...

2003-11-01 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:16:29 -0500 Xpression [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Hi guys, I was wondering if I have three script files on crontab and all they are executed at the same hour how it's function ??? I mean: # #minutehourmdaymonthwdaywhocommand # 0

Re: crontab question...

2003-11-01 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:57 AM 11.1.2003 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: * Xpression: Hi guys, I was wondering if I have three script files on crontab and all they are executed at the same hour how it's function ??? AFAICT, cron forks a new process for each job scheduled at the same time. Cheers, --

crontab question...

2003-10-31 Thread Xpression
Hi guys, I was wondering if I have three script files on crontab and all they are executed at the same hour how it's function ??? I mean: # #minutehourmdaymonthwdaywhocommand # 00*** root /path/one/script1 0