Re: unattended upgrades

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@yahoo.com>]

 --- Rudy Gevaert <rudy@zeus.UGent.be> wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what the best way is to do an unattended apt-get
> update; apt-get upgrade ?

You could do it in a crontab entry:

03 03 * * * root  apt-get update && apt-get -dy upgrade &&  \
apt-get upgrade -y

You'd have to make sure that prior to that you put your cron* packages on
hold, otherwise it might barf.  I should point out that automating apt-get
in this way, is probably a disasterous thing to do...

YMMV.

-- Thomas Adam

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