Cron and cvsup

[Mark Blackman]

On 17 Aug 2004, at 12:51, Grant wrote:

> 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...

as an aside, /etc/crontab is meant for very general purpose system
activites (and the cvsup update is appropriate for that), the user
crontabs (like root) should be edited with 'crontab -e' (assuming
you're running as the appropriate user).

The cvsup update job would also have been appropriate in the
root crontab as well, so that wasn't the main issue.

- Mark

>
> But now its all working.
>
> Thanks all for the help
> Grant.
>
>
>
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