Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use this line in /etc/crontab on my woody system: > 42 6* * sun root/usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -q -d -y > -u dist-upgrade ; /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean > I use a similar but much more complicated method to acheive a similar re

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 22-Mar-00, 10:56 (CST), Steve Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move' > package after downloading the .debs. Apt-move will move the .debs out of > the cache into a Debian archive hierarchy & naming convention. > > This is quit

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Steve Robbins
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote: > Any suggestions/comments? I'd be surprised if I'm the first person to > think of this, but I didn't see anything that suggested it anywhere. One suggestion: for some people, it makes sense to use the `apt-move' package after downloading the .debs. Apt

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote: > I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses >apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while >the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I >mentioned it on

apt-get cron job

2000-03-22 Thread Peter Cordes
Hi all, I've got a useful cron job that many of you may find useful. It uses apt-get to download updated packages in the wee hours of the morning while the rest of the internet sleeps (well, at least most of it sleep :). I mentioned it on my local LUG list, and Ben Armstrong gave me some helpfu