[Bugs] #2058 UNSP: Automate pulling of weekly test builds for SoaS

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#2058: Automate pulling of weekly test builds for SoaS
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    Reporter:  mchua                      |          Owner:  sascha_silbe               
        Type:  task                       |         Status:  reopened                   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  infrastructure             |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:                             |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  New                        |  
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Comment(by mchua):

 sdz wants to learn about crontabs, so I'm writing this up here in case it
 helps someone later on.

 Change to the soas user as described above.

 {{{
 sudo - u soas -i
 }}}

 Make a directory for the script, go into it, get the script, make it
 executable, and change its name (the last step mostly so I'd remember
 better what it was). Run the script to make sure it works (may take a
 while, is pulling down an entire .iso).

 {{{
 mkdir bin
 cd bin
 wget http://chris.tylers.info/files/soas-wget-test
 chmod +x soas-wget-test
 mv soas-wget-test soas-weekly-test-wget
 }}}

 Edit the crontab.

 {{{
 crontab -e
 }}}

 This will open the crontab (a textfile) for editing. Add the following
 line:

 {{{
 59   23   *   *   4   ~/bin/soas-weekly-test-wget
 }}}

 The last entry is the script we want to run (soas-weekly-test-wget). The
 first two run it at 23:59 (11:59pm), and the 4 means "every Thursday"
 (Sunday is either 0 or 7, you can figure out the rest of the days of the
 week from that.)

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2058#comment:10>
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