[ale] scripting

David S. Jackson deepbsd at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 28 10:35:56 EDT 2002


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 12:03:27PM -0700 Stephen Turner <artic_knight at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i was curious, has anyone used a bash script to keep thier system updated?
> and i wanted to make sure i had this clear but, even if your not logged in
> as root, root is still theoretically active like on and running right?
> like cron jobs in root are still running on time and such, i just wanted
> to make sure. so i dont screw and let my servers get outdated if i dont
> touch them for a week :-p and im not logged in

I think lots of people do.  What type of system do you have, and what
type of updating do you want to do?  Just keeping current with software
and kernels and releases of your distro?  (This type of thing would  be
distro-specific, of course.)

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David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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