> """ > export aptopt= > $ROOTCMD apt-get $aptopt -f -y dist-upgrade </dev/null > """ Sorry for the late reply.. been busy. You know, you could always use apt-get -simulate dist-upgrade on your machines. Check the output and leave a token somewhere that then allows the machines to do the upgrade for real. You could easily manage upgrades and propagating changes to the sources.list and such with a shell, tighttpd and curl...