On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:37:31AM +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Anyway, the cron-apt package does what you want. It is recommended,
though, to use it only for downloads.
It does help the OP since he uses apt-get, but what about the people who
normally use aptitude? There's no "cron-aptitude" package. And though
cron-apt can be configured to actually run aptitude, I don't get the
impression that it has really been tested that way.
I've always used my own script, and put it in cron. Something like
this:
apt-get update > $HOME/update.log 2>&1
apt-get upgrade --assume-yes >> $HOME/update.log 2>&1