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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 > > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD4DBQFGU/FF7s9z/XlyUyARAl+wAJYyhj8xYQk31H4ZSq93FqRQ3PXcAJ458A8s > lwlDyktVhlq8SzaablnveA== > =YX2R > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/814 - Release Date: 5/21/2007 > 2:01 PM > >
