Correct crontab entry for port selfupdate && port upgrade outdated

[Peng Yu]

Hi Arno,

I see the following error in the log. Where is portsign.sh? What is it
for? Thanks.

/usr/local/bin/periodic-port.sh: line 43: /usr/local/bin/portsign.sh:
No such file or directory


On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> The basics are that the shell script goes in /usr/local/bin (or
> anywhere else really, just make sure you edit the plist to point to
> where the script is). The plist goes in `/Library/LaunchDaemons/`,
> should be owned by root:admin and have 644 permissions. You can then
> load the service with: `launchctl load
> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.port.selfupdate.plist` and stop
> the service with "unload" instead of "load".
>
> For detailed info, read this:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20120415040038/http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20050620071558293
>
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Where should I put these files and what commands shall be used to load them?
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
>>> I use the following launchd task [1] and shell script [2] to automate
>>> weekly updates.
>>>
>>> You can remove the reference to "portsign.sh", unless you want to
>>> share your compiled ports with another MacPorts installation [3].
>>>
>>> [1]: https://gist.github.com/fracai/2324512
>>> [2]: https://gist.github.com/fracai/2324493
>>> [3]: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/ShareArchives2
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Clemens Lang <cal at macports.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 04:16:50PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> And running MacPorts via root instead of via sudo will currently cause some problems:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/34221
>>>>
>>>> You could use the workaround I proposed in
>>>>   https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2013-April/022725.html
>>>> (the mail is a reply to a mail that seems to have been moderated from
>>>> the list, which is the reasons why it seems to be lacking some context)
>>>>
>>>> --
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>> Regards,
>> Peng
>
>
>
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Regards,
Peng