Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 09:30 am, Joe Hill wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003 07:53:41 -0400 > > Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, if you knew about it, why did you make like it did not exist? > > > > If you wanted to know how to use it, ask how to use it. > > aaasy...take a dep cl

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:24 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > Thanks for adding that. To further clarify, the urpmi.setup config > app was created to be a gui alternative to adding sources at the > command line. Some people like the cli, others like

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Greg - I have to say that when I first met this I did not find it at > all easy to set up. You have to know what it is expecting to achieve > anything - at least unless they have changed it a good deal. > > So I'm going to quote an old emai

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: > > At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > > > > I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically > > > > update the whol

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:26 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ";" > rather than "&&" to separate the 2 commands? > The && prevents the second one from running if the first one does not complete successfully. -- Greg Want to buy yo

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: > At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > > > I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the > > > whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download >

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Cody Harris
At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole > system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences > easier and software installs would work better. It w

RE: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ";" rather than "&&" to separate the 2 commands? Tony. -Original Message- From: stormjumper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread stormjumper
if you have urpmi properly set up and working, setting a cron job to run, say, every morning at 3am urpmi.update -a && urpmi --update --auto-select --auto should keep your system properly updated with security updates - Original Message - From: Cody Harris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-27 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: > I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole > system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences > easier and software installs would work better. It would also improve > security by downloadin