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Re: System maintenance



On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:40:31PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote:
> 
> Would you really want to run something like cron-apt to keep your system 
> up to date?  Is that generally what people do?  Just run a big apt-get 
> update, apt-get upgrade?  I'd just think that could have negative 
> consequences (like breaking something).  Does it, or is that generally 
> safe practice?
> 
> If that is a bad idea, then is there any easy way to just get critical 
> security updates and sort of leave everything else as is?
> 
That is what I do.  However, I never have it auto-install.  It only
downloads and then emails me when something is waiting to be installed.
I go in and actually install the packages by hand.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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