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Is it safe to run apt-get udpate -y through cron on a production server?
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Hi
I'm quite new to Linux, but before using it I was hearing that Windows programs, after uninstallation, leaves a lot of remains on the hard disc, and Linux removes all.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04. To uninstall packages I'm using sudo apt-get autoremove application_name or sudo aptitude purge application_name…
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I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and was about to manually install Rawstudio with the packages from SourceForge repo, but I've been stuck with dependency issues and I am short on apt command lines to sort this out.
Here's the report I'v got :
installArchives() failed: dpkg: dependency problems…
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I know about pinning packages with APT; that's not what I want to do. Other questions have been answered with either using pinning or by using pins temporarily. I don't want to do this...
What I want to do is keep packages back the same way the kernel has been:
# apt-get upgrade
Reading package…
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I've got an annoying problem with completion and sudo apt-get.
To give an example:
$ sudo apt-get in[Tab][Tab]
in intel_bios_reader
includeres intel_disable_clock_gating
indicator-multiload intel_dpio_read
info intel_dpio_write
infobrowser…
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After Running apt-get update on ubuntu 10.04 server, I found this issue, Can any help me to solve this issue. Before this I had remove apt-key. Where can I get this apt-key to add it again.
apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com lucid-security Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu…
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Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-autologin:session): session opened for user mimi by (uid=0)
Jun 7 00:01:18 Isis lightdm: pam_ck_connector(lightdm-autologin:session): nox11 mode, ignoring PAM_TTY :0
Jun 7 00:01:26 Isis polkitd(authority=local): Registered Authentication Agent for…
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My /etc/cron.daily scripts seem to be executing far later from what I understand they should. I am in Ubuntu and anacron is installed.
If I do a sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep cron I get something like:
Aug 23 01:17:01 mymachine CRON[25171]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron…
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I've got an Ubuntu 8.04 server using mdadm to create several RAID1 arrays. I created /etc/cron.hourly/mdadm as follows:
#! /bin/sh
set -e
mdadm --monitor /dev/md0 /dev/md3 /dev/md4 --oneshot
(Yes, the array numbers are not sequential, and I'm not using --scan beacuse I have a degraded array that…
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We have about a one hundred machine set-up with each machine running cron jobs like starting and stopping services and archiving these services' log files at the end of the day to a centralized repository.
One headache we have is the three-day weekend (we're closed on holidays). We don't want the…
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I created an own small server with Debian. Last night i updated it.
It created an error while generating the initrd and it didn't boot.
Today i booted from another filesystem and did dpkg --configure -a with chroot. I also checked the filesystem.
Now everything should be ok.
But cron doesn't work:-(…
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