Cron and cvsup

Grant orblists at orbysrealm.com
Tue Aug 17 12:51:21 BST 2004


Grant wrote:

> Tom Hukins wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:59:43AM +0100, Grant wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> 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 ?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You could change the time to 10 minutes in the future and check it
>> runs.  Alternatively, you might find crontab2english useful:
>> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SB/SBURKE/crontab2english_0.71.pl
>
Hey,

I tried the setting it 10minutes in the future and it worked perfect :)

Looks like i had been putting the my cron lines in the wrong file...

But now its all working.

Thanks all for the help
Grant.







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