Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

[Nick <gentoo-user@njw.me.uk>]

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:50:04AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Nick wrote:
> >
> > So, I'm planning to run "sudo emerge --sync" and "sudo glsa-check -f
> > new" from a cron job, perhaps once a week.
> >
> > I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I
> > should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools
> > from a cron job?
> 
> Why bother with sudo and /etc/sudoers? That's just an extra layer of 
> unnecessary complexity. The usual assortment of cron daemons can all 
> run commands as root. Write a script to run the commands you want, copy 
> it to /etc/cron.d/weekly. It will run at 4:22 am every Sunday.

Sounds good, I'll do that. For some reason I was under the
impression that root couldn't have its own crontab. Clearly I was
mistaken (just as well, that wouldn't make much sense...)

> You'll have to be aware of the usuaal limitations of cron jobs - they do 
> not run under bash, and they seldom have the same environment variables 
> set as what a r\egular user gets. So always include full paths to any 
> command you run

I'll probably be back here if I some variable reassignments or
whatever cause things to get confused, but it doesn't sound likely.

Thanks guys,

-Nick

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