Re: how to upgrade dozens of debian servers
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:28:14 -0800, "Kirk Ismay" <captain@netidea.com>
wrote:
>In a cron job I use the following to alert me when new packages are
>available for my systems:
>
># update Debian package list
>0 2 * * * /usr/bin/apt-get -q update
>
># This produces a report of updated Debian packages
>30 10 * * * /usr/bin/apt-get -s dist-upgrade | /bin/grep Inst
>
>This sends me an email for each system, so I know what needs an upgrade.
When you think about it, it's already in Debian. See the cron-apt
package which does a pretty similiar job.
Greetings
Marc
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