Re: automatic security updates
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 14:24:37 -0700
"Sebastian Haase" <haase@msg.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 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.
Hey, thx for this hint. Unfortunately I decided after the last bill of the
electricity-empire to shutdown my server (Uptime of 8 month, I was so
proud. Yes I know, here are many people who are laughing about 8 month
:-))
> 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
ciao
Walde
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