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apt-get via cron

08-Mar-11

IRL I’ve had a few people ask me about updating Ubuntu installations via cron. If you add something like 05 0 * * * /usr/bin/apt-get -y update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -y upgrade to root’s crontab, you’ll get errors like this: dpkg: warning: ‘ldconfig’ not found in PATH or not executable. dpkg: warning: ‘start-stop-daemon’ not found in [...]

I made a huge mistake.

19-Jun-10

Wow. I have a VPS with prgmr that I totally love. It’s really cheap and I can do whatever I want (as long as it’s legal). I decided to upgrade to the 10.04 LTS (Wanna know why? So that I could install cacti from the repos instead of compiling it. Yeah.) The system went down [...]