Keeping my software packages up to date

[vanderkerkoff]

Hello everyone

I've had a search through the forums but can't find what I'm looking for, I'm sure it's there and apologies for asking something that has undoubtedly been answered before.

I'm running numerous Ubuntu 8 LTS web servers, with mysql, rails, nginx, etc etc and I was after some advice about keeping these servers up to date with security updates.

I'm on the ubuntu security announcements mailing list, but I was hoping to find a way to automate the installation of any security updates.

Can anyone give me any advice or point me in the right direction here?

Thanks in advance.

[cavh]

What about using the updates tab in the Software Sources section of the Administration menu? There you can select to receive only security-related updates and have them install without confirmation. Or is that not quite what you're after?

[vanderkerkoff]

Hi cavh

I'm not running any gui's, so no access to that sort of stuff.

That is what I'm after though, but I need to set it up from the command line.

V

[cavh]

Sorry, can't help further without GUI;)