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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
6.B athena-auto-upgrade [ -f | -d ] [ -t ]
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
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
31.SH SEE ALSO
32getcluster(1), kexec(8)
33
34.SH AUTHOR
35SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu)
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