I have just figured out how to combine slackpkg and Eric's mirror script with options to make my life easier and save the bandwidth of the places which I update from ........Ok so it wasn't difficult, just something I didn't really think about until I went to 3 current boxes and wanted to be as easy on the mirrors as possible. If I wanted to run the script daily from my local file server could I just create the following script and put it in /etc/cron.daily?I've already put Eric's script in /usr/bin and set it executable. Does the cron.daily script need to be set executable as well?

I think the -q options of Eric's script is designed for running it in a cron job.

Yes it would to be executable and should contain full path to the mirror script, if my understanding is correct.

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You could just make a link to the script in cron.daily

But simply being in /etc/cron.daily would be enough for the script to be executed daily?

Yes. In my box, I set it up with the following cron job:
It should be fine in cron.daily too I guess.

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From root's crontab:

# Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
40 4 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null

So yeah, 4:40 am