On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 09:55:38AM -0500, ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:24:33 +0000 (GMT) > Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> wrote: > I suppose you really meant "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade"? > > There's nothing at all wrong with doing "update" in a cron job, since > that just fetches the newest packages lists. > > Doing "upgrade" by cron? <shudder> i like what cron-apt does by default though. it runs update, and then runs the download-only portion of upgrade. that way, when you decide it's time to upgrade, you already have the packages. sean
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