Re: Using crontab to update Debian
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Kirk Hogenson wrote:
> Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > I know that apt-get -d dist-upgrade ask yes, but how do I pipe to
> > it. I tried apt-get -d dist-upgrade | y and doesnt work: y -> command
> > not found
> > Thanks, Paulo Henrique
> >
> > > Pipe yes to it.
>
> I think by "Pipe yes to it", he meant to use the "yes" program,
> which just prints "y\n" over & over & over ....
>
> Like this:
>
> yes | apt-get -d dist-upgrade
>
> Of course, this will only work if all of the questions apt-get asks
> require the answer "y". But this may not be the case, since,
> according to Shaleh:
Erm,
apt-get -yfqq update
apt-get -dyfqq dist-upgrade
Is the best way to run it from cron, run it again without the options
during the day to install it
Jason
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