Re: Mirror Cron job ?

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> What is the correct way to set up a mirror cron job that runs daily?
> This is what I have done. 
> Created a file /etc/cron.daily/mirror with this in it:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/bin/mirror /etc/mirror/packages/ftp.debian.org
> 
> 
> Shouldn't this be run as a different user than root? If so how do I set it
> up that way? Do I use the crontab command to do this?

Yes, just as (ordinary user) do:

crontab -e

and then add a line like

10 4 * * *       $HOME/debian/do_mirror 

(this will start the cron job at 4:10 every day).
where $HOME/debian/do_mirror can look like

$ cat $HOME/debian/do_mirror
#!/bin/bash
date>> $HOME/debian/mirror_results
/usr/bin/mirror $HOME/debian/mirror.defaults >> $HOME/debian/mirror_results

This way you don't get email about it every day, while you still have
a logfile to see what went wrong (if anything).


-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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