Re: privilege that rc.local runs under?

[Ben Goren <ben@trumpetpower.com>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:30:02PM -0400, Matt Van Mater wrote:

> I was thinking I might make a  cron job that looks at the errata
> page  and if  there were  changes made,  immediately kick  off a
> fully  automated  release  build  process.  It's  not  all  that
> useful, but it seems  like a fun little script I  can write in a
> short while.

In the spirit of rope-giving, a more interesting approach would be
to do a  CVS update of /usr/src  and doing the update  if there is
any output (don't forget the ``-q'' flag). Setting the cron job to
run more than  once a day would be excessive. Even  once a day may
be too much.

You're also assuming, of course, that you won't be getting partial
updates out of CVS--that is, that you don't just happen to hit the
server when some, but not all, of the updates have been committed.

Cheers,

b&

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