Holly Bostick wrote: > > >Myself, I used to mail myself the output of esync, and now I mail myself >the output of eix-sync, so I don't have so much experience with using >emerge --sync in a cron job, but this looks like it might be what you're >looking for: > > >--nospinner > Disables the spinner for the session. The spinner is >active when the terminal device is determined to be a TTY. This flag > disables it regardless. > >You might also be interested in: > > --quiet (-q) > Results may vary, but the general outcome is a reduced or >condensed output from portage's displays. > >Hope this helps, >Holly > >
Well, I didn't know it did this. I just type in emerge sync && emerge -efv world && emerge -upv world and walk away. I check it latter one when my modem is idle. When did this start anyway? Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
