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On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:47:00AM -0300, Penguin Lover Pablo Antonio squawked: |
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> On 10:51 Mon 15 May , Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> > Can someone please point me to a reference that will show me now to |
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> > configure my vixie cron to do a nightly emerge sync? |
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> > I know it can be done, however I have not yet come up with the necessary |
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> > instructions |
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> Well, you'll be amazed by how easy it is to do it :) |
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> Just log in as root and type 'crontab -e' to edit the crontab. There you |
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> should have something like: |
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> * * * * * emerge --sync |
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And don't just put something like the above in your crontab. You want |
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something like |
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0 1 * * * emerge --sync |
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or something (the example here give 1am every day). If you put just |
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five *s, the rsync server would be very, very annoyed at you. |
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