On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:36:53PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> 
> > instead, you should possibly file a bug against cron-apt, or
> > maybe apt/dpkg if there is not a way to do what you want.
> The only possible suggestion here would let dpkg have a default
> answer of "n" to the question if the config file should be replaced
> by the maintainer. Maybe something in /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.

Or maybe hack cron-apt to pipe yes -n to the operations.  Then I can
think of some other problems that will cause, like answering n to "Do
you wish to continue" on kernel-packages.

> But apart from that I would strongly discourage actually doing updates
> with cron-apt. Use it to notify yourself by mail but never let the
> system restart your services unattended if it's not absulutely
> necessary.

It's hard in our situation, because we have too many systems to
maintain by hand.  I guess I'll have to find another way around it.

-- 
Ryan Underwood, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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