On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:04:05PM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > Hi folks. One question (which will really be my first question in the > mailing list). I would like to run the following as a nightly cron job (in > script format): > > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > What would I need to do to get this to work? Mainly, how do I get the cron > job to run as root? > -- > Robert Wolfe, MCP > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > As root:
crontab -e then add something like the following 15 00 * * * apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade man 5 crontab (for more details (and to check the syntax :) ) The line above would execute the command at 00.15 every (day of month)(month)(day of week) or thereabouts. HTH, Andy > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Message sent using UebiMiau v 2.7.8 [Debian GNU/Linux for Sparc64 'Etch'] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
