Re: automatic security updates
Please look into this package - and tell me what it means ;-)
Package: cron-apt 0.0.7
Automatic update of packages using apt
This package contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals.
By default it just updates the package list and download new packages
without installing. You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with
apt-get.
It also sends mail (configurable) to the system administrator on errors.
Observe that this tool is a security risk, so you should not set it to do
more than necessary (automatic upgrade of all packages is NOT recommended).
Sebastian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Waldemar Gorus" <WaldeG@t-online.de>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: automatic security updates
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:22:11 -0400
> "R. Bradley Tilley" <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > How does one automate security updates. I'm assuming this is done by
> > setting up a cron job to run apt-get upgrade nightly to check for the
> > latest packages... Is this right?
>
> I would prefer cron, too.
> Another nice way is described in this newsgroup yesterday or some days
> ago. Topic was: "script to do nightly dist-upgrade"
>
> But you should tell apt to answer all question by itself. Do you really
> need an automatic update. What about an automatic mail which reminds you
> to upgrade your system? :-)
>
> ciao
> Walde
>
>
> > Thanks
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