RedHat Perl updates

Ugo Bellavance ugob at CAMO-ROUTE.COM
Wed Oct 15 03:33:50 IST 2003


> If you've got a box you want to automatically keep up to date 
> it's easy:
> 
>         [root at fw apt]# cat /etc/cron.daily/apt-update
>         apt-get update
>         apt-get --yes upgrade

apt-get --yes dist-upgrade is slightly different, but will upgrade dependencies, well I think.  See man apt, or apt-get.

Another cool feature is apt-cache search...

apt-cache search bind will show you all packages that has bind in its description.
see man apt-cache
>         [root at fw apt]# cat /etc/cron.weekly/apt-cleanup
>         apt-get clean
> 
> :)
> 
> --
> </chris>
> 
> No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
> -Niels Bohr, physicist (1885-1962)
> 




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