Changeset b471f6a for general/sysutils/pciutils.xml

Timestamp:

12/23/2018 06:56:44 PM (5 years ago)

Author:

DJ Lucas <dj@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, bdubbs/svn, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

cc338e51

Parents:

39100371

Message:

Add cron jobs for update-pciids and update-usbids.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@20862 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/sysutils/pciutils.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/sysutils/pciutils.xml

@@ -148 +148 @@
     </para>
 
-    <para revision="sysv">
-      You may wish to add an entry to
-      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>'s (or any other user who has
-      write privilege to <filename class="directory">/usr/share/hwdata</filename>)
-      crontab to automatically update the <filename>pci.ids</filename> file
-      periodically.
-    </para>
-
-    <para revision="systemd">
+    <para>
       You should update the <filename>/usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids</filename> file
-      periodically. Execute the following commands, as the
-      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user, to create a systemd
-      timer to update it weekly on Sundays at 2:30 A.M. (local time):
-    </para>
+      periodically. <phrase revision="sysv">If you've installed
+      <xref linkend="fcron"/> and completed the section on periodic jobs,
+      execute</phrase><phrase revision="systemd">Execute</phrase> the following
+      commands, as the  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
+      to create a <phrase revision="sysv">weekly cron job:</phrase>
+      <phrase revision="systemd">systemd timer to update it weekly on Sundays
+      at 2:30 A.M. (local time):</phrase>
+    </para>
+
+<screen role="root" revision="sysv"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/cron.weekly/update-pciids.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;
+<literal>#!/bin/bash
+/usr/sbin/update-pciids</literal>
+EOF
+chmod 754 /etc/cron.weekly/update-pciids</userinput></screen>
 
 <screen role="root" revision="systemd"><userinput>cat &gt; /lib/systemd/system/update-pciids.service &lt;&lt; "EOF" &amp;&amp;