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In auto-update: * Add some debugging and options to athena-auto-upgrade
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[24797]1.TH ATHENA-AUTO-UPGRADE 8 "3 August 2010" "debathena-auto-upgrade" "Athena Upgrade System"
2.SH NAME
3athena-auto-upgrade \- Attempt to automatically upgrade to a newer release of Ubuntu
4.SH SYNOPSIS
5.nf
[25326]6.B athena-auto-upgrade [ -f | -d ] [ -t ]
[24797]7.sp
8.SH DESCRIPTION
9.BR athena-auto-upgrade
10is intended to be run by cron on a regular basis.  It queries Hesiod
11for the newest release of Ubuntu, and then kexec's into the installer
12for that version. If the upgrade fails prior to kexec, a message will
13be sent to the \fIuser\fP syslog facility, with priority \fInotice\fP.
14
15You really don't want to run this by hand.
16
17.SH FEATURES
18Here be dragons.
19
[25326]20.SH OPTIONS
21.IP -f
22Forces athena-auto-upgrade to reboot even if someone is logged in.
23Don't use this.
24.IP -t
25Causes athena-auto-upgrade to upgrade to a 'testing' release.  Don't
26use this.
27.IP -d
28Debug mode.  Will also force it to simulate an upgrade, even on
29non-cluster machines.
30
[24797]31.SH SEE ALSO
[24798]32getcluster(1), kexec(8)
[24797]33
34.SH AUTHOR
35SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu)
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