What is the correct way to set up a mirror cron job that runs daily?
This is what I have done.
Created a file /etc/cron.daily/mirror with this in it:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org
Shouldn't this be run as a different user than root? If so how do I set it
up that way? Do I use the crontab command to do this?
Yes, just as (ordinary user) do:
crontab -e
and then add a line like
10 4 * * * $HOME/debian/do_mirror
(this will start the cron job at 4:10 every day).
where $HOME/debian/do_mirror can look like
$ cat $HOME/debian/do_mirror
#!/bin/bash
date $HOME/debian/mirror_results
/usr/bin/mirror $HOME/debian/mirror.defaults $HOME/debian/mirror_results
This way you don't get email about it every day, while you still have
a logfile to see what went wrong (if anything).
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