On Tuesday 10 June 2003 06:37 am, Joerg Mertin wrote: > > So - any hints/tips welcome ... > I have my server running Mandrake 9.0. It runs httpd, samba, nfs, print queu mgmt with cups and a few other things and it has been running for 155 days now without an issue. I was gonna try and upgrade it to 9.1 last weekend, but I found out I had to do a presentation this week so I didn't want to risk it getting screwed up so I'll upgrade it after my presentation today.
You can set it to do automatic updates by creating an update source and using urpmi in a cron job to keep it up to date. This is what I do. I keep a local mirror of the update sources using fmirror. If I see in the morning that there has been an update on the mirror, I check out the advisory at mandrakeSecure and then wait a few days to make sure there isn't an issue with the update. If there isn't, I run the commands "urpmi.update --update" and then "urpmi --auto-select --update" This updates the hdlist files for urpmi and then automatically updates anything that is installed. If you want it to be automatic, you could set it all up in a cron job. Set it and forget it. You also don't need a local mirror, you could update directly from one of the mirrors. I just like having it mirrored locally because it is easier to update more than one machine that way, plus I get notified via e-mail when the cron job pulls down a new update. -- Greg
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