Re: suppress interactive messages at upgrade

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Hans wrote: 
> Hi folks,
> 
> is there a more clever way than running aptitude/apt-get with the tags "-yq", 
> when I want to suppress interactive messages at upgrade?
> 
> (The problem: I still get an ncurses warning, that the actual kernel got 
> updated and the old video module (it is the nvidia kernel module) is still 
> loaded.). 
> 
> Generally I am not interesting in warnings, only in crashs. 

Have you considered running apticron or configuring
unattended-upgrades?

Those will, depending on your config choices:

- download updates and tell you about them in email, or
- download updates, apply them, and tell you about them in
  email, or
- download updates, apply them, reboot the system if necessary,
  and tell you about it in email

-dsr-