On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:56, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:22, you wrote: > > The server-relevant point here is that this update process must be > > completely automatic - i.e. not waiting for a user to log on to a > > graphical desktop. > You must be overflowing with trust in your Linux distributor. > I think I'd prefer to stay in control of the exercise.
Hmmm ... we discussed my trust of various package distributors a few weeks ago :-) However, I guess the "full" version should restate a previous comment this morning, which is that you should at least automate the collection of updates, if not the actual installation. For Debian, I generally do half that job, with a apt-get update && apt-get --simulate upgrade I suppose you could do apt-get update && apt-get --download-only upgrade Any advice for improving on this invocation welcome :-) -jim
