Update Manager: do I need it?

[Niles Rogoff]

Yes it is safe so long as you do not remove apt

2015-03-16 9:45 GMT-04:00 Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>:

> I have a batch (10) of diskless workstations that mount their root (/) and
> /usr file systems read-only from a 'headless' server (actually a VM running
> 14.04), using DRBL. I ssh into the 'headless' server from time to time
> (weekly
> usually) and use apt-get update/upgrade/etc. + some scripts (drbl and my
> own)
> to update things across all of the machines. *Some* of the users on the
> diskless workstations are in the admin group, so they are sometimes
> 'bothered'
> by the Update Manager and the Update Manager seems to be hogging resources
> (eg
> beating on the network and/or NFS mounted disks). I am considering doing an
> 'apt-get remove update-manager' to get rid of the Update Manager -- *I*
> don't
> use it, since I am using (manual) CLI update procedures. Is this 'safe' to
> do?
>
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