Services & Auto-Updating

[sparkes]

Neil Woolford wrote:
> At 22:03 30/09/04, you wrote:
> 
>>    1. Is there a way to have apt automatically run "apt-get update" &&
>>       "apt-get upgrade" nightly? 
> 
> Yes.  But in the true Unix/Linux spirit it isn't built in to apt-get.
> 
> Rather than add features and weight to individual programs, Linux has a 
> separate service for running jobs automatically at specified times.  The 
> service is called 'cron', and is generally accessed by using the 
> 'crontab' command which builds and modifies the appropriate 
> configuration file.
> 

it's not really a good idea to have apt-get upgrade running like this. 
it's no problem have apt-get update run on a cron job but how do you 
answer the debconf questions when it runs unattended?

you can get apt to download the packages but not install automagically 
and then run the update manually when you have the time to answer the 
questions.

sparkes
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