Cron and cvsup

[Grant]

Grant wrote:

> Paul Robinson wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:17:49AM +0300, Dimitrios wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:54:24 +0100 "Grant" 
>>> <orbman at thingysrealm.myftp.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> But it IS there as i can run it manualy using that line above...
>>>> So is there something i need to add for it be put into a cron tab ? 
>>>> or something i have missed
>>>>     
>>>
>>> i think cron executes commands without a full environment, thus
>>> some people add this line at the top:
>>>
>>> SHELL=/bin/bash
>>>
>>> though your problem might not be related to this, since you
>>> have specified the full path+filename.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> I'd start here:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html 
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Hey,
>
> Thanks for that i never knew  /etc/crontab existed :) so i will try my 
> line in there... i had been putting it in /var/cron/tabs/root i assume 
> thats for something else ?
>
> I will add a line to the /etc/crontab i just hope it works this time..
>
> Thanks all
> Grant.
>
> Ps = my old email address was orbman at thingysrealm.myftp.org this is my 
> new one, so i can keep things organized... (i hope)
>
>
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I just added that line to /etc/crontab

5       0       *       *       *       root    /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g 
-L 2 /data/cvsfiles/cvs-portsupdate

Is there anyway i could test that line other than waiting till 12:05 ?

Thanks
Grant.