Mark Roach wrote:
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,

I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different
package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and
do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron.

how about putting: apt-get update -qq && \ apt-get upgrade -s | grep ^Inst | mail -e -s "hostname" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

in cron?

Look into the package cron-apt. It basically does apt-get update && \ apt-get --download-only --yes dist-upgrade and emails the results to whatever address you want.

Also the following lines in /etc/apt/apt.conf are useful:
  // always list packages to be upgraded
  APT::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";

This still leaves you with having to ssh into each machine and run apt-get dist-upgrade manually, but it will tell you when it needs to be done, and the packages will already be downloaded ready to install.

Randy



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