----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Sanders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Patrick Hsieh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 6:12 PM Subject: Re: how to upgrade dozens of debian servers
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:40:21AM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > I have some debian servers and hav a pain when these is security upgrade > > package available, for I have to check and upgrade them one by one, making > > sure they are in safe status.> <big snip> > to tell whether each upgrade has succeeded, you need to run upgrade-all.sh > using script to log a complete transcript of what happened. see script(1) for > details. script logs all output, including control-characters and escape codes > so dialog boxes (e.g. from debconf) can make the logfile difficult to read. apt-get -q <command> runs apt in quiet mode, which reduces the amount of control-characters. Sincerely, -- Kirk Ismay System Administrator
