Services & Auto-Updating

[Thom May]

* Benjamin Edwards (bedwards at rnli.org.uk) wrote :
> I kind of thought about running apt-get update/upgrade nightly ages ago for
> debian but there are sometimes prompts which need user interaction.  Is it 
> safe to put it in crontab, I guess that would choose the defaults in this case.
> 

I have used apt-get -d -q -y upgrade in the past in cron.
This causes apt to download new packages but not install them, which is
great for when you're on dial up.
Cheers,
-Thom