| Line | |
|---|
| 1 | .TH ATHENA-AUTO-UPDATE 8 "11 March 2010" "debathena-auto-update" "Athena Update System" |
|---|
| 2 | .SH NAME |
|---|
| 3 | athena-auto-update \- Attempt to automatically update installed packages |
|---|
| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
|---|
| 5 | .nf |
|---|
| 6 | .B athena-auto-update [-n] |
|---|
| 7 | .sp |
|---|
| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
|---|
| 9 | .BR athena-auto-update |
|---|
| 10 | is intended to be run by cron on a regular basis. It attempts to |
|---|
| 11 | reconfigure any unconfigured packages, then will simulate an upgrade. |
|---|
| 12 | If there are no packages to update, it will exit. If there are |
|---|
| 13 | packages to update, it will ensure that the update process won't try |
|---|
| 14 | to remove any of the required metapackages. It will then perform the |
|---|
| 15 | upgrade, and update the apt-file cache. |
|---|
| 16 | |
|---|
| 17 | If the update fails at any point, a message will be sent to the |
|---|
| 18 | \fIuser\fP syslog facility, with priority \fInotice\fP. |
|---|
| 19 | |
|---|
| 20 | The results of the script are logged to \fI/var/log/athena-update\fP. |
|---|
| 21 | |
|---|
| 22 | The \fI-n\fP option will prevent athena-auto-update from rebooting |
|---|
| 23 | even if a package requests it. You really don't want to use this |
|---|
| 24 | option. |
|---|
| 25 | |
|---|
| 26 | .SH FILES |
|---|
| 27 | |
|---|
| 28 | .B /var/log/athena-update |
|---|
| 29 | |
|---|
| 30 | .SH SEE ALSO |
|---|
| 31 | |
|---|
| 32 | aptitude(1) |
|---|
| 33 | |
|---|
| 34 | .SH AUTHOR |
|---|
| 35 | SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu) |
|---|
| 36 | |
|---|
Note: See
TracBrowser
for help on using the repository browser.
