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In auto-update: * Add a -n option to prevent it from rebooting, because if you reboot in recovery mode, you end up back in recovery mode, because kexec sucks * Document -n option in man page
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1.TH ATHENA-AUTO-UPDATE 8 "11 March 2010" "debathena-auto-update" "Athena Update Sysmte"
2.SH NAME
3athena-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
10is intended to be run by cron on a regular basis.  It attempts to
11reconfigure any unconfigured packages, then will simulate an upgrade.
12If there are no packages to update, it will exit.  If there are
13packages to update, it will ensure that the update process won't try
14to remove any of the required metapackages.  It will then perform the
15upgrade, and update the apt-file cache.
16
17If the update fails at any point, a message will be sent to the
18\fIuser\fP syslog facility, with priority \fInotice\fP.
19
20The results of the script are logged to \fI/var/log/athena-update\fP.
21
22The \fI-n\fP option will prevent athena-auto-update from rebooting
23even if a package requests it.  You really don't want to use this
24option.
25
26.SH FILES
27
28.B /var/log/athena-update
29
30.SH SEE ALSO
31
32aptitude(1)
33
34.SH AUTHOR
35SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu)
36
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