Services & Auto-Updating

[Epps, Aaron M.]

	Thanks for all your advice, I think I'll setup apt-get update to run in a cron job nightly.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thom May [mailto:thom at planetarytramp.net] 
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:08 AM
To: Benjamin Edwards
Cc: Epps, Aaron M.; neil at neilwoolford.co.uk; ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Services & Auto-Updating

* 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