Automating Debian updates

Posted by tuxchick on Jan 19, 2008 4:42 AM EDT
O'Reilly Weblogs; By Juliet Kemp
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I have cron-apt set up on all my machines — you can get it to install any updates automatically but that sounds like Bad News to me, so instead it’s set to download and email me. I had a script that took names-of-machines-to-upgrade as arguments and did the rest for me, but that involved typing up to 50 machine names. And I am lazy. So I finally got around to writing a script that parses a local mailbox, grabs the machine names from the subject lines, and does the rest from there.

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