[Wolves] Cron help please....

Ron Wellsted ron at wellsted.org.uk
Sat Oct 7 20:53:45 BST 2006


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David Morley wrote:
> I would like my server to auto update so I am figuring that one way to
> do this would be to set it as a crontab job how would I get around the
> whole 'sudo' issue or is crontab accessible to root only?  Can't find
> any where that is too specific about this point in Ubuntu or debian
> docs.
> 

"sudo crontab -e" is your friend.  The best approach would probably be
to make a shell script with
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

and run this from the crontab entry.


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Ron Wellsted
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