Re: System maintenance

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:30:05 -0500
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

> 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
> 

In Etch and Sid, you also achieve this by putting the following
in /etc/apt/apt.conf

APT {
    Periodic {
        Update-Package-Lists 1;
        Download-Upgradeable-Packages 1;
    };
};


-- 

Liam