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 08:44:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017801c79d40$7f20eb00$6601a8c0@yellobow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070523074613.GG27228@localhost.localdomain>
Well actually Greg this is Fedora fc6 and my father's a beginner so I want
to use apt-get instead of yum for him and I find it much easier to read from
a windows box or other wise I would agree with you.
Scott
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: help with a bash script
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> There's no point in reinventing the wheel here. What you want to do is
> most likely already done by the cron-apt package under debian, and
> debian-based distros I imagine as well.
>
> Greg
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> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:53:12PM -0500, 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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` Dawes, Stephen
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