On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Shaun Oliver wrote: > *SNIP* > Not being a debian user I can't answer your other questions, other than > to say that I'm not a fan of automatic updates. > *SNIP* > who the hell gave you the impression that debian did automatic updates? > sorry bud but you have to still type apt-get update and apt-get upgrade > to do an update of any debian packages. > providing of course your /etc/apt/sources.list file contains the vital > urls for such things.
If you bothered to read the original post, it was actually referring to running apt-get update in a cron job to do updates automatically. But obviously you didn't. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
