Re: Using crontab to update Debian
A mirror is much bandwith for me.
I didnt test yesterday.
I will test tonight when I was at home.
Thank you, Paulo Henrique
Quoting Shaleh (shaleh@livenet.net):
>
> On 09-Mar-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > Hi Debian users,
> > In my country (Brazil) I only have to pay one tax between 0:00 and
> > 6:00 AM independent of call time.
> > I'm start thinking to get my home machine live at night and set crontab
> > to use pon or wvdial (I have two account, one with pon and other with
> > wvdial) and use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/script_to_upgrade.
> > Am I following the right path to solution?
> > The script will be only:
> > #!/bin/bash
> > apt-get update
> > apt-get dist-upgrade
> > ?
> > Have a nice day, Paulo Henrique
> >
> >
>
> Yes, except for the fact that the install needs you there to hit enter a few
> times. Apt says "is this correct [Y/n]", "press enter to continue". The
> packages scripts may ask you for info as well.
>
> A better solution may be to try and setup a mirror program and just grab
> packages you are interested in (X, libc, dpkg, other essentials).
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