Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. You might want to check out cron-apt, it's de

Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. > > However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to > the list suggest

running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Kimber
I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to the list suggesting that it is better to run aptitude than apt-get directly, I have been e