.TH ATHENA-AUTO-UPGRADE 8 "3 August 2010" "debathena-auto-upgrade" "Athena Upgrade System" .SH NAME athena-auto-upgrade \- Attempt to automatically upgrade to a newer release of Ubuntu .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B athena-auto-upgrade .sp .SH DESCRIPTION .BR athena-auto-upgrade is intended to be run by cron on a regular basis. It queries Hesiod for the newest release of Ubuntu, and then kexec's into the installer for that version. If the upgrade fails prior to kexec, a message will be sent to the \fIuser\fP syslog facility, with priority \fInotice\fP. You really don't want to run this by hand. .SH FEATURES Here be dragons. .SH SEE ALSO getcluster(1), kexec(8) .SH AUTHOR SIPB Debathena Project (http://debathena.mit.edu)