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From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: help with a bash script
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:37:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e301c79d3f$d7f9a0b0$6601a8c0@yellobow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1737DDA6-1211-486A-8EBB-B4EA42254267@softcon.com>

Hi Travis,

Can you please be just a little bit more specific please.  Okay so are you 
telling me that I would put in my script apt-get update
then /usr/bin/more
apt-get dist-upgrade
/usr/bin/more
aptget clean
End of Script?

Just not quite clear what you are trying to get me to do.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@softcon.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: help with a bash script


> You can just about anything you like in a cron job.  if it can run in
> a script, it can run as a job.
> Secondly, just run the program (use the whole path and don't rely on
> the parcer of the interpreter to find it for you.  I.E. /usr/bin/more
> instead of just more.
> This prevents hackers from overriding the programs being executed.
> Also, when you put it in a cron job, the output of the job will be
> emailed to root (unless you specify otherwise) so you'll know if it
> worked or not.
> But, most programs (and I'm sure appget is amoung them) have an error
> code to determine if they exited successfully or not.
> Simply test for the code after the program ends if you really need to
> know, but it shouldn't matter, since you can view the output of the
> job if so desired.
>
>
> On May 22, 2007, at 8:53 PM, Scott Berry wrote:
>
>> Hello guys and gals,
>>
>> One more question here.  I want to create a bas script for my Dad
>> which does the following:
>> 1 Does apt-get update and when apt-get update gets done it knows
>> that it has been completed successfully.
>> 2.  Do apt-get dist-upgrade and knows when it gets done.
>> 3.  Do an apt-get clean.
>> Also for those who have more experience than me I have a question
>> too.  Is it wiser for me to run that in a shell console of it's own
>> or just have him run that under gnome terminal.  My goal at the
>> very end is to cron this so this can run at night for him.
>>
>> Scottat updates can be
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Scott Berry
 ` Travis Siegel
   ` Scott Berry [this message]
 ` Gregory Nowak
   ` Scott Berry
     ` Dawes, Stephen
       ` Scott Berry
         ` Dawes, Stephen
 ` Sean McMahon
 Jude DaShiell
 ` Littlefield, Tyler

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