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I just put a line in the crontab: |
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emerge sync &>/dev/null && emerge --deep -upvl world && emerge -uf world >/dev/null |
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It's not pretty. It's not sophisticated. |
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You will get a mail from cron with the output of |
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'emerge --deep -upvl world' and then you can decide what to do. |
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Removing the --pretend and letting these updates run automatically is just |
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asking for trouble IMHO. |
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There are several problems with this approach... |
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1. There's not enough information about updates to the tree (rsync). If |
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your mirror isn't up to date, you won't know it. This isn't really |
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different to normal syncs, but it's still a problem. |
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2. Output of wget in the fetch phase isn't suppressed, so you get a long |
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mail. |
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I recommend checking http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=36086 and |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3252 |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Andy Mayer wrote: |
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--snip-snip-- |
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> Our server requirements are not cutting edge; we only need Apache, PHP. |
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> Perl and mySql (and maybe later some mail services). My question is: if |
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> I move our server platform to Gentoo, is there an automated way of |
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> applying security patches to the currently installed software that I can |
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> "fire and forget" without fear of things breaking big time.? |
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> I know this question is not very focused, but I wanted to start a |
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> discussion as to the best methods of automating security updates for |
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> non-cutting edge Apache/MySQl/PHP servers using Gentoo. |
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> |
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--snip-snip-- |
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Andrew Cooks |
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TechTeam TechTeam -- "We make it work." |
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Computer Science dept. |
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University of Pretoria |
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Stimulate your melon for a change! Use Linux! - http://tlug.up.ac.za |
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"If 44,000 employees of Sun can work with StarOffice, and can exchange any |
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document with their customers, there is no good argument not to do it" |
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- Richard Seibt, CEO of Suse Linux |
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