Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

[Mark Shields]

On 5/29/07, Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious to know your approach to keeping your Gentoo box current
> without it becoming a full-time job.  I'm not talking about
> maintaining servers - just your "daily driver", so to say.
>
> How often do you sync with the current portage tree and compare it
> your versions in "world"?  Should one do this once a week?  Once in
> two weeks?
>
> How often to you update major components, like Xorg, kernel, and
> system tool chain?  As soon as new things become available, or, say,
> once a month or so?
>
> The reason I ask is because I often don't have a lot of time to devote
> to system administration on a regular basis but do want to keep my box
> updated as much as possible.  How do some of you non-developers
> balance system administration with your "day job"?
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I sync and do an emerge -DNpvu world daily.  The results are e-mailed to me
by vixie-cron.  This allows me to read what new packages are available and
also see the updates available.  These logs are sent to my gmail address
with a label and filter.  If I am so inclined I can view the current one or
past ones.  I can then log into the box and run emerge -DNavu world and
update, then run etc-update after that.  The only thing that's been bugging
me is restarting services after they've been updated (automagically, or
near-auto).

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- Mark Shields