help with a bash script

help with a bash script

[Scott Berry]

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.

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Re: help with a bash script

[Travis Siegel]

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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Re: help with a bash script

[Gregory Nowak]

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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


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.
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Re: help with a bash script

[Scott Berry]

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


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From: "Travis Siegel" <tsiegel@softcon.com>
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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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Re: help with a bash script

[Scott Berry]

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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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
>
>
> 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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RE: help with a bash script

[Dawes, Stephen]

Scott,

Yum works much better then apt in fedora. It is simply a case of
learning the syntax. 
yum install  -- to install a package.
yum update -- to update the system
yum remove -- to remove a package.

By default, yum is setup to automatically update the system through
cron. I think it is nightly, but I don't remember exactly, because I
changed my to run weekly.

Steve Dawes
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Re: help with a bash script

[Scott Berry]

That's right I remember that now Steve.  How does one get yum to cron then? 
Is it just a matter of setting chkconfig and the levels you want to run at?

Scott
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Subject: RE: help with a bash script


> Scott,
>
> Yum works much better then apt in fedora. It is simply a case of
> learning the syntax.
> yum install  -- to install a package.
> yum update -- to update the system
> yum remove -- to remove a package.
>
> By default, yum is setup to automatically update the system through
> cron. I think it is nightly, but I don't remember exactly, because I
> changed my to run weekly.
>
> Steve Dawes
> Phone: (403) 268-5527
> Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
>
>
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RE: help with a bash script

[Dawes, Stephen]

Scott,

It is already running. Look in the /etc/cron.daily directory, and you
should see a yum* script. 
Basically, it is checking for updates by default. That is to say, as
long as you haven't stopped the automatic starting of yum in chkconfig. 
Do a 
ps -e |grep yum  
to confirm that yum is running, and that is all you need to do.
If you want yum to clean up on a scheduled bases, then schedule a yum
clean all or whatever level of clean you are needing.

Steve Dawes
Phone: (403) 268-5527
Email: SDawes@calgary.ca
 
 


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Re: help with a bash script

[Sean McMahon]

hmm,  would autoapt to what you want?
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From: "Scott Berry" <sberry@northlc.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:53 PM
Subject: help with a bash script


> 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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Re: help with a bash script

[Littlefield, Tyler]

thanks. I'll check in to it.

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Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 9:50 PM
Subject: re: help with a bash script


> Before writing that script, you might find the cron-apt package does all 
> that you need done once you get it configured correctly.
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re: help with a bash script

[Jude DaShiell]

Before writing that script, you might find the cron-apt package does all 
that you need done once you get it configured correctly.