-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal.
You might want to check out cron-apt, it's designed to do this and only email you if there's a problem. > However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to the > list suggesting that it is better to run aptitude than apt-get directly, I > have been experimenting with 'aptitude update' instead. However the > output from this that is emailed to root is not helpful, and is always of > the form:- Colin meant when you run interactively, it is better to use aptitude. And he's mostly right, I just haven't figured out where all the special search patterns are documented yet. I know broken packages is ~b... - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/CUVdJ5vLSqVpK2kRAvOkAJ9G4r8oiP4aOBIZUkeP4aLjI2x1BQCeL0/k aWH1dc6tZYE8kViV9Xyl85g= =JkFZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
