On Saturday 05 March 2005 04:38, Michael Haan wrote: > I've just about got my mythtv box finished and I'm turning my eyes to > the job of maintaining it. I know there are several routine things I > should be doing, but I'm curious just how often I should be doing > them. Any advice as to when I should be doing some of the routine > portage/package version maintenance things?
Personally, I'd say there should be no routine things you need to do to it. As the old adage says, "if it ain't broke don't fix it." In my experience, there are two areas that need to be covered in daily usage; one is running out of disk space and the other is security updates. The former is best covered by log rotation and, if lengthy logs are required, backuping up to another box. Security updates can be covered in a few ways. Two ways that come to mind are either updating the portage tree of the box (without updating the packages) and running glsa-check, and subscribing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reading the securing updates as they come in. Personally, I prefer the latter as it means that I don't have to touch the box that I'm concerned about. Really, how you do it is up to you though. The best advice I can give is "if it ain't broke don't fix it." Regards, Jason Stubbs -- [email protected] mailing list
