[Gllug] [OT] Appreciation

[John Winters]

- Tethys wrote:
> On 12/15/06, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Then there are security updates, which can be handled very easily by
>> means of a cron job running each night.
> 
> Well they *can* be, but it's rarely a good idea. Fine for a desktop,
> perhaps, but definitely not on a machine that's doing real work.

I wouldn't let the cron job install the updates automatically, but what 
I tend to do on a server is have it run:

     apt-get update
     apt-get -d upgrade

each night and then e-mail me if there's anything pending.

John
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