At work we run a number of Red Hat Enterprise machines and CentOS servers. After finding a large number of machines that were grossly outdated I decided to add a weekly cron job to notify us of available updates. I used something along the lines of: #!/bin/bash yum check-update | mail -s “Weekly Errata Report… Read More »
Last week Aaron asked me if I knew the reason behind the latest kernel update, or if I knew where to find the changelog. I poked around a bit and found that Aptitude, the command-line package management tool, has a changelog option. If you’d like to see the changelog for a package before you update,… Read More »
Ever since I learned about the benefits of aptitude vs apt-get I’ve switched over. It’s been great and I’m sure I’ve preached about the benefits before (/me does some digging and pulls up links) here. Well, I ran into something yesterday that I haven’t been able to solve with aptitude. Is it possible to pull… Read More »
This post is something that may be fairly basic for many of you, but extremely helpful for anyone new to using Ubuntu. In an attempt to be as comprehensive as I can with my tutorials I wanted to go back to the basics. Ubuntu (and Debian) use a package management system called APT. This system… Read More »