Mark Roach wrote:
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:04, rajkumars@asianetindia.com wrote:Hello, I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron.how about putting: apt-get update -qq && \ apt-get upgrade -s | grep ^Inst | mail -e -s "hostname" your@email.com in cron?
Look into the package cron-apt. It basically does apt-get update && \ apt-get --download-only --yes dist-upgrade and emails the results to whatever address you want. Also the following lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf are useful: // always list packages to be upgraded APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";This still leaves you with having to ssh into each machine and run apt-get dist-upgrade manually, but it will tell you when it needs to be done, and the packages will already be downloaded ready to install.
Randy