Re: portsnap and updates using cron

From: Norberto Meijome (freebsd_at_meijome.net)
Date: 08/31/05

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To: martin hudec <corwin@aeternal.net>

    martin hudec wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:31AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
    >
    >>Not sure. Check the logs, etc. If you're familiar with ktrace,
    >>kdump, etc., you could follow the program's progress if you
    >>find no log information.
    >
    >
    > /var/log/cron reports me that cronjob was done. No I am not familiar
    > with ktrace, kdump etc.

    man ktrace
    man kdump

    in a nutshell: ktrace shows the kernel calls that a process is
    executing. It creates a dump file which you can view with kdump. similar
    (better actually) than strace and whatever other ?trace found in linux.

    >
    > First, I tell my custom script (with environment set by PATH=) to call
    > portsnap fetch && portsnap update, but he is unable to fetch anything
    > at all, therefore I started to use portsnap cron and I hoped to be
    > able to fetch it.

    then it seems it's a portsnap problem and not cron...get it working in
    your normal shell first and then focus on automating it. (btw, what's
    wrong with (cd /usr/ports/ ; make update) , or a cvsup cmd line?)
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