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Re: Automatic updates for Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Thu Jul 24 15:29:14 2008
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:28:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> Anyway, my basic approach would likely be a cron job which checks if
> anyone is logged in, temporarily disables logins, runs "aptitude
> update" and "aptitude full-upgrade" with the noninteractive front end
> and stdin set to /dev/null, and reboots the machine if there's a new
> kernel. (Or maybe in more circumstances? I'm not sure how
> update-manager decides whether to recommend a reboot.) But first, I'm
> checking in to see if anyone knows of existing work in this area that
> might do a better job than a homegrown cron job can.
At my work, we use cron-apt.
I haven't looked at it much, but the way it used to be configured here
(when we were on Debian Sarge), it e-mailed me when there are updates,
told me what they were and what commands I need to run, and said that it
would automatically install the updates if I don't do so by a certain
time.
(Now on our Ubuntu machines, updates aren't automatically installed, but I
think that's policy-related, not distribution-related.)
--
Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
