From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPJT1-00024o-03 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:10:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B6B41C278 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:10:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF03B1C0EE for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 19:09:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so2867654ewy.40 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=m51XSt1qz0uImFizJZ6MBP6p3cCuNJ07yr0wfVu0GZo=; b=vEJdpYsLqFF8EqXm8b0kLKCUk3T3tGqiKa2f0LTqdwti49MAHHlBABnDccMpwzX8gw jS1Fm3hGANsYXHw5HpBb5HASw3S6h48FHiWkiSVq63ZuVsliA8gQMc83zhT4h7gI22sL dktstTkwmlQLUBty2+AlSecDjGj3UlYnTzCYc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type; b=AOaPfr2WEe7PVKQCrzg0RTUipAZ8PHH5/z8bEnYEWM10W9bmYDtYYuiKnBRDjkM8gK 7yjy05IvQx688bNsXP2fvqdgWHsgBsU7qZLiZv+Iag27rGzl92ijOiCsozIu1WuwzWmV yBva4DNCRrbZFJJpYvkLCfq9Rt1VDWO1YwAjc= Received: by 10.14.16.100 with SMTP id g76mr1792779eeg.168.1306350543072; Wed, 25 May 2011 12:09:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.80.142] (89-235-211-237.saturn.infonet.ee [89.235.211.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y14sm1598721eeh.22.2011.05.25.12.09.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 May 2011 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DDD53CE.6000504@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:09:02 +0300 From: Kristjan Kalder User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Managing multiple servers. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060800060004070101030700" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c14887fdaf0f3018a4b1b575b186756c This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------060800060004070101030700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25.05.2011 21:43, Nils wrote: > > When I was managing multiple servers, I would have a cron job set > to eix-sync daily (the maximum frequency Gentoo recommends > syncing), then once a week I would have emerge -DNpvu world > e-mailed from cron. I would then review the e-mail and see if I > wanted to upgrade. If I didn't, I'd mask the package version and > move on. > > > May I ask why would would sync once a day but only run emerge once a week? To reduce network traffic for one single rsync session? -- Lugupidamisega, Kristjan Kalder +372 56491771 --------------060800060004070101030700 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25.05.2011 21:43, Nils wrote:
When I was managing multiple servers, I would have a cron job set to eix-sync daily (the maximum frequency Gentoo recommends syncing), then once a week I would have emerge -DNpvu world   e-mailed from cron.  I would then review the e-mail and see if I wanted to upgrade.  If I didn't, I'd mask the package version and move on.

May I ask why would would sync once a day but only run emerge once a week?
To reduce network traffic for one single rsync session?

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Lugupidamisega,
Kristjan Kalder
+372 56491771
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