Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 07:54, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> I would like to have apt-get update automatically. The only way I can
> see to do this is to set up a bash script and use cron to do it...I
> think.
> 
> 1. What should my script look like?

As with every other bash script, it follows the general structure

#!/bin/bash
command_1
command_2
command_3
...

In your case it would probably be something like

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/apt-get update
/usr/bin/apt-get upgrade

> 2. What should I put in my crontab to make it update on a weekly basis?

0 0 * * Mon root /path/to/your/script

will run the script every Monday at midnight.

Note that both in the script and in the crontab you should put the full
path to all commands you use.

> 
> Since it's automatically done and needs to be done as root, how do I
> accomplish this?

The sixth field in the system crontab sets the user it should run as.