My suggestion was to Dean. I agree with you that there should be a link to the latest version on the server, allowing you run a fixed command.
A cron job is a task that is scheduled to run at a particular time. See "man cron" and "man crontab". Dean's entry is: 0 2 * * * rpm --force -U -v http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/ nightly/SlimServer_v`date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`/slimserver-`date +\%Y_\%m_\% d`-1.noarch.rpm This means, "at 2am every day, run rpm with the followings args". You'd set this up by changing to the user that you want the job to run as and typing "crontab -e". The `date ...` bits mean run the date command with the specified args and insert the result into the string. See "man date" for details, but it's basically generating a string that looks like http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/SlimServer_v2005-11-20/slimserver-2005_11_20-1.noarch.rpm. This is horrible, and shouldn't be necessary! Max andrewmulcock Wrote: > What is a cron job ? > > What is all that "date +\%Y-\%m-\%d`/ " > > I'm sorry, Im a real Linux novice, Ok i have had to learn a lot to get > this slimserver working, so great all for learnign. > > but can we not just make things easy. > > It's hard enough to find out to type rpm -u what ever, let alone a line > that changes with each release. > > I'm all for making things easier and safer for the novice, keep what we > already have, great, but lets encourage people to use this. -- max.spicer The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------ max.spicer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=23 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18348 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
