On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Imre Gergely <gi...@narancs.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:57:25 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Carsten Aulbert >> <carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> On Wednesday 19 January 2011 13:21:44 Tapas Mishra wrote: >>>> >>>> How ever I have installed cron-apt which has scheduled an update for >>>> daily morning 4 o clock, >>>> So does this message mean that it is not getting updated. >>> >>> From the package description of cron-apt: >>> >>> [..] >>> Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By >>> default it >>> just updates the package list and downloads new packages without >>> installing. >>> You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get >>> (or aptitude). >>> [..] >> >> Ohh thanks its my fault I missed that part. >>> >>> Thus you possibly need to configure it, to run the updates automatically >>> - but >>> I'm not sure if that is a good thing because it could break the system or >>> you >>> won't get an updates kernel live as this might require a reboot. >> >> You are correct as I have experienced this in past. >> I have a test machine for doing this to see if every thing is working. >> I can try if you suggest any thing on that.So that before I deploy it >> on a production machine >> I am sure that things are working. > > I'm using apt-cron also and I set it to just download the packages and send > me an email if there's something to update. Then I log in and do the update > manually (apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade). > If you have lots of servers, that wouldn't be practical I guess. But for 1-2 > servers I think it's not a big deal (IF you look at your emails fairly > often, like once a day?).
I fully understand your point and this is not so difficult to do an ssh and do an apt-get upgrade if it is only one server.(Which is the case).But the situation I am in is, I am not a permanent employee who would take care of this environment. I have created this environment for some one who is interested to work on this (with perspective of end user and not a sys admin). So I want to make sure that if I leave things working perfectly.Even for a novice. So before I make a cron job entry for this I thought of asking here. -- -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
