On 27/01/2013 06:34, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
If you needed version control features on your ports tree (especially if
you were regularly contributing changes to ports), getting and updating
your tree through subversion would have some extra features you might
want, but it doesn't sound as if
On 27/01/2013 00:11, W. D. wrote:
What would be the best Cron command to keep ports updated on a daily
basis?
Try this as a crontab entry:
0 3 * * * * /usr/sbin/portsnap cron update
Two points to note:
1) The 'cron' verb is important for anyone setting up an automated job
like this.
On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote:
to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree. You only need
to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of
/usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do
(but keep anything under
On 27/01/2013 08:35, Zyumbilev, Peter wrote:
Last 10 years I am using cvsup. Any good guide for the transition to
subversion ?
Most of the guides around freebsd.org are aimed at developers who will
be using SVN read-write. For simple read-only use (ie. not checking
anything into the
On 27/01/2013 10:07, Mike Clarke wrote:
I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately
prior to running portsnap.
Yes. That would do the trick quite neatly. In fact, snapshot before
each time you run portsnap.
Cheers
Matthew
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On 27/01/2013 12:46, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Cheers,
Matthew
Matthew,
Fantastic howto ! Thanks ! Really a good job...as usual :-)
Peter
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Hello Matthew,
Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a number of
concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where I discovered an
apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More specifically I manually
edited /usr/ports/UPDATING and portsnap did not
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500
MFV mrk...@acm.org wrote:
The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint.
With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a
minor issue.
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Steve O'Hara-Smith writes:
The only downside with svn seems to be the 728 MB footprint.
With hard disc space running at around 10c per gigabyte it's a
minor issue.
Doesn't that depend on whose money it is?
Robert Huff
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote:
2) Choose a protocol for access the SVN servers. Your choices in
order of preference are
svn://
https://
http://
Use svn:// for best performance. If you're concerned about MITM
attacks injecting trojans into the
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:51:12 -0500
MFV wrote:
Hello Matthew,
Thanks for an outstanding piece of documentation. It resolves a
number of concerns I had and convinced me to move from portsnap where
I discovered an apparent bug that gave me security concerns. More
specifically I manually
W. D. w...@us-webmasters.com writes:
According to:
http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html
Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like:
#-
#Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command
# At 3:46 in the morning,
Paul Chvostek wrote:
0 1 28-31 * * test `date -v+1d '+%d'` -eq 1 /path/to/script
You have to escape the percent sign in crontab with \:
run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline
or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell
specified
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote:
may be this solution will help you:
[snip]
* * 31 1/2 *
* * 30 4/2 *
* * 28 2 *
This isn't right, surely? It goes wrong in August and stays wrong for the rest
of the
yes, you're right, thank you/ the right version will be:
* * 31 1,3,5,7,8,10,12 *
* * 30 4,6,9,11 *
* * 28,29 2 *
2009/6/9 Jonathan McKeown j.mcke...@ru.ac.za
On Monday 08 June 2009 17:37:14 Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote:
may be this
Mike Jeays wrote:
Isn't that a linuxism? Looking at the man pages for the date command for
FreeBSD, it looks as if 'date -v+1d' will return tomorrow's date (and it does,
I checked). The -d option is to do with daylight saving time.
- eot-
I see; will have that incorporated in the script.
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote:
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month
day is the last day of the month?
If it really needs to be done on
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which
month day is the last day of the month?
Solving this in the script to be executed is no option.
I've done this before. My
put 12 lines, for each month and with the last day.
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month
day is the last day of the month?
Solving
Hi Jos,
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which
month day is the last day of the month?
Solving this in the script to
may be this solution will help you:
* * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec *
* * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov *
* * 28 feb *
or:
* * 31 1/2 *
* * 30 4/2 *
* * 28 2 *
2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
crontab.
Can someone tell me
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote:
may be this solution will help you:
* * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec *
* * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov *
* * 28 feb *
or:
* * 31 1/2 *
* * 30 4/2 *
* * 28 2 *
Don't forget leapyear.
jerry
2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote:
may be this solution will help you:
* * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec *
* * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov *
* * 28 feb *
or:
* * 31 1/2 *
* * 30 4/2 *
* * 28 2 *
Don't forget leapyear.
0 0
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:55:56 +0200,
Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net said:
J I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my
J crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know
J which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script
Found another solution (for running @ 23:58):
58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript
thanks for all other suggestions,
Jos Chrispijn
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On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote:
Found another solution (for running @ 23:58):
58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /myscript
thanks for all other suggestions,
Jos Chrispijn
Might be a path issue.
I had similar issues with cron (/etc/periodic/daily) if I didn't use a
full path to the binaries.
:c(
i have an odd problem with this cronjob,
#!/bin/sh
cd /home/timothy
burncd -f /dev/acd0c blank
tar -zcvf ./burning/thunderbird.tar.gz ./.thunderbird/*
tar -zcvf
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