Administrative

Blind0wl · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 2:41 pm Post subject: Administrative

What things should I do administratively to my box to make sure it is up to date etc? Like emerge world, emerge rsync? And what kind of time frame should I do this? ie. every week, every month...

Thanks for any tips

Blindy

pizen · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 2:46 pm Post subject:

I rsync every day (sometime more than once because I'm bored). I then do an 'emerge -pu world' to look at what's new. Based on that I sometimes do an 'emerge -u world' or just individual packages depending on the situation (like do I have time to let everything compile or does that really need updating).

Ethernal · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 4:19 pm Post subject:

Why not set up a chron job that will do a emerge rsync && emerge -u world like at 0200 every night or so? That's what I'm using right now anyway :roll:

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securiteaze · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 4:29 pm Post subject:

Monitoring log files is another administrative task.