Correct crontab entry for port selfupdate && port upgrade outdated

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Apr 27 14:16:50 PDT 2013


On Apr 27, 2013, at 13:39, Stephen Rasku wrote:

> Can you even run "sudo" inside a cron entry?  You won't be able to
> automatically enter the password.

There would have to be an entry in /etc/sudoers negating the need for typing a password for this command.

> You might have to put the entry into root's crontab.

And running MacPorts via root instead of via sudo will currently cause some problems:

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34221

Though we believe we've fixed it on trunk.




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