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| 1 | .TH ATHENA-AUTO-UPDATE 8 "11 March 2010" "debathena-auto-update" "Athena Update System" |
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| 2 | .SH NAME |
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| 3 | athena-auto-update \- Attempt to automatically update installed packages |
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| 4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 5 | .nf |
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| 6 | .B athena-auto-update [-n] [-v] [-d] |
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| 7 | .sp |
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| 8 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 9 | .BR athena-auto-update |
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| 10 | is intended to be run by cron on a regular basis. It attempts to |
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| 11 | reconfigure any unconfigured packages, then will simulate an upgrade. |
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| 12 | If there are no packages to update, it will exit. If there are |
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| 13 | packages to update, it will ensure that the update process won't try |
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| 14 | to remove any of the required metapackages. It will then perform the |
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| 15 | upgrade, and update the apt-file cache. |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | If the update fails at any point, a message will be sent to the |
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| 18 | \fIuser\fP syslog facility, with priority \fInotice\fP. |
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| 19 | |
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| 20 | The results of the script are logged to \fI/var/log/athena-update\fP. |
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| 21 | |
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| 22 | .SH OPTIONS |
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| 23 | .IP -n |
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| 24 | Prevents athena-auto-update from rebooting even if a package requests |
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| 25 | it. Don't use it unless you know what you're doing. |
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| 26 | .IP -v |
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| 27 | Causes some output to be printed to stdout in addition to the log. |
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| 28 | .IP -d |
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| 29 | Debug mode. Implies -v. |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | .SH FILES |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | .B /var/log/athena-update |
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| 34 | |
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| 35 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | aptitude(1) |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | .SH AUTHOR |
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| 40 | SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu) |
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| 41 | |
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