On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 02:35:10PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: > ===On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Brad wrote: > > > > I know of one, although it was running RedHat until i took on the job. > > Personally, i find Debian _much_ easier to keep up-to-date. The day > > something new is released for potato, a cronjob emails me and asks me to > > How do you set that up? (The cron job I mean.) Where are you > checking to see if something new is realeased?
Put lines for your favorite Debian mirrors, for security.debian.org, and for proposed-updates if you want into your apt sources.list. Something like this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/ As someone else posted, you could create your own local mirror if you have several boxen. Then have a cronjob run apt-get update and apt-get --download-only upgrade, checking the output lines to see if anything was actually downloaded. i'm currently using a perl regexp to look at the "X packages upgraded, Y newly installed, Z to remove and W not upgraded" line, and having it give cron some output to email if X, Y, Z, or W are not the expected values. Finally, when you get notice that something is available, apt-get -s upgrade and check what it wants to do, and apt-get upgrade if it looks good. -- finger for GPG public key.
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