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+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright (c) 2001 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>
+#
+# update the FreeBSD Web-Server from the CVS repository
+#
+# $FreeBSD$
+#
+
+PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
+CVSROOT=/home/ncvs; export CVSROOT
+
+build_dir=/usr/local/www/build
+logfile=log.make.`date '+%d'`
+
+cd $build_dir || exit 2
+
+cvs -qR update -dP www doc > $logfile 2>&1 || exit 2
+
+# fresh checkout
+# rm -rf www doc || exit 2
+# cvs -QR co www doc || exit 2
+
+cd www || exit 2
+cd en || exit 2
+
+# force a rebuild every week at sunday
+case `date '+%u'` in 7) make clean > /dev/null 2>&1 ;; esac
+
+time make all > $logfile 2>&1 && 
+    time make DESTDIR=/usr/local/www install >> $logfile 2>&1 || 
+	tail -50 $logfile
+