Services & Auto-Updating

[Neil Woolford]

At 22:03 30/09/04, you wrote:

>Two questions...
>
>    * How do I view/edit what services are running for each runlevel?
Others have answered this I think.

>    * 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.

Fortunately for us mortals there are also friendly gui front ends 
available.  As I haven't got a running Ubuntu available today I'm afraid I 
don't know which if any of these is available in this distribution - sorry.

Hope this helps you get on the right tracks.

Neil

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