Trying to "make index" in a crontab job

[John Marshall]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, 22:42 +0200, Morgan Wesstr?m wrote:
> Is there a preferred way to update the 
> ports source tree and create the index through crontab?

If your system is configured to use csup (or cvsup) to update your ports
tree to the latest (ports-all tag=.), then you can fetch a pre-built
index with "make fetchindex".

portsnap(8) updates the INDEX as well as the ports tree by default and
might be a better solution for you.

The Handbook article on portsnap includes details on running portsnap
from cron:
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html>

-- 
John Marshall