Correct crontab entry for port selfupdate && port upgrade outdated

[Stephen Rasku]

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 27, 2013, at 08:10, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> I have the following crontab entry
>> /tmp$ sudo crontab -l
>> 0 1 * * * sudo nice /opt/local/bin/bash -c "set -v; ((echo '==> port
>> selfupdate <=='; /opt/local/bin/port selfupdate) && (echo '==> port
>> upgrade outdated <=='; /opt/local/bin/port upgrade outdated))
>>> /tmp/portupdate.log 2>&1"
>>
>> But I always see the following error message.
>>
>> /tmp$ cat portupdate.log
>> ==> port selfupdate <==
>> --->  Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
>> Error: /opt/local/bin/port: port selfupdate failed: Error
>> synchronizing MacPorts sources: command execution failed
>
> Try modifying the crontab entry to run "sudo port -d selfupdate" so that we'll see why this failed.

Can you even run "sudo" inside a cron entry?  You won't be able to
automatically enter the password.  You might have to put the entry
into root's crontab.

...Stephen