Re: Automatic dist-upgrade for security update
This is my nightly script for these purposes:
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#!/bin/bash
#
apt-get update
apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade
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Put that in CRON. If your MAILTO veriable is set right in CRON then you
will get the output, and the packages will be downloaded and ready to
install. All you have to do is run:
apt-get dist-upgrade
At your convienence.
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On 2 Jul 2002, Christian Egli wrote:
> Jean-Michel Besnard <besnard@tekkno.net> writes:
>
> > I am looking for a way to notice the admin when a package has to be
> > updated.
>
> > I was thinking about a script that would apt-get update && apt-get
> > dist-upgrade --simulate |mail root@foobar every hour if dist-upgrade
> > --simulate had an output different than : 0 packages upgraded, 0
> > newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> You might want to look at cron-apt.
>
> apt-cache show cron-apt
> apt-get install cron-apt
> man cron-apt
>
>
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