help with a bash script

[Scott Berry]

Well actually Greg this is Fedora fc6 and my father's a beginner so I want 
to use apt-get instead of yum for him and I find it much easier to read from 
a windows box or other wise I would agree with you.

Scott


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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: help with a bash script


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> There's no point in reinventing the wheel here. What you want to do is
> most likely already done by the cron-apt package under debian, and
> debian-based distros I imagine as well.
>
> Greg
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> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:53:12PM -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>> Hello guys and gals,
>>
>> One more question here.  I want to create a bas script for my Dad which 
>> does the following:
>> 1 Does apt-get update and when apt-get update gets done it knows that it 
>> has been completed successfully.
>> 2.  Do apt-get dist-upgrade and knows when it gets done.
>> 3.  Do an apt-get clean.
>> Also for those who have more experience than me I have a question too. 
>> Is it wiser for me to run that in a shell console of it's own or just 
>> have him run that under gnome terminal.  My goal at the very end is to 
>> cron this so this can run at night for him.
>>
>> Scottat updates can be
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