On 10/15/06 21:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 09:47:01PM -0400, dtutty@porchlight.ca wrote:Personally, I always use aptitude so I can see what it wants to do before it does it.As do I. But personally, I'd rather that the 200MB X update and OOo update be downloaded at 3 AM, when I am (hopefully asleep). That is the beauty of cron-apt, that it downloads everything for you at a convenient time.
What's the difference between cron-apt and creating a root cron job to do:
0 3 * * * apt-get update && apt-get -y -d upgrade -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.