From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Ht4ym-0007H6-Ar for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:55:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4TGsDol032157; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:13 GMT Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com (sj-iport-6.cisco.com [171.71.176.117]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4TGns7s027493 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:49:55 GMT Received: from sj-dkim-3.cisco.com ([171.71.179.195]) by sj-iport-6.cisco.com with ESMTP; 29 May 2007 09:49:53 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.14,589,1170662400"; d="scan'208"; a="155874762:sNHT39969198" Received: from sj-core-1.cisco.com (sj-core-1.cisco.com [171.71.177.237]) by sj-dkim-3.cisco.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l4TGnrTQ004593 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 09:49:53 -0700 Received: from xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-211.cisco.com [171.70.151.144]) by sj-core-1.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l4TGnr24012517 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 16:49:53 GMT Received: from xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.187]) by xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 29 May 2007 09:49:47 -0700 Received: from [10.89.5.178] ([10.89.5.178]) by xfe-sjc-212.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 29 May 2007 09:49:47 -0700 Message-ID: <465C59A9.9080505@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:49:45 -0500 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070420) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration? References: <20070529145013.BF6858B3B8@mail.ilievnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20070529145013.BF6858B3B8@mail.ilievnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 May 2007 16:49:47.0299 (UTC) FILETIME=[5DAB2730:01C7A211] DKIM-Signature: v=0.5; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; l=1297; t=1180457393; x=1181321393; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim3002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=royw@cisco.com; z=From:=20Roy=20Wright=20 |Subject:=20Re=3A=20[gentoo-user]=20how=20do=20you=20keep=20up=20with=20s ystem=20administration? |Sender:=20; bh=k8dPLmYXiXXbXhkc4ysjk1bC6R5WEioBJBDb7bMviaY=; b=j8A8ynVmBKdqi/U0BCv9JcB0Y0A4s6InO/GnN3PTCTLPQeuzkZUUkOxvBt3AzSCq0ei4zwoG yx07JbJBj2O1S5dXp2cdXSB1/+w/C98yQZNug19Jqi0GchowOqdIytgD; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-3; header.From=royw@cisco.com; dkim=pass (si g from cisco.com/sjdkim3002 verified; ); X-Archives-Salt: a6f1a0de-9aa2-4190-b8e3-3a7db4d1e0b4 X-Archives-Hash: 5dd6be04b004b06cb52d78c56b90326d Daniel Iliev wrote: > I have a daily cron job containing: > === > emerge --sync && \ > emerge -DuNf world && \ > glsa-check -t all 2>&1 | mail -s "GLSA report" root > === > > In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then > checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says "This system is > not affected by any of the listed GLSAs" I update when I have the time > (mostly in the weekends), otherwise I update ASAP. > > In addition to the above, my cron job also syncs my overlays, updates eix database, checks dependencies, and verifies nvidia driver was not updated behind my back :-) echo "Syncing overlays..." /usr/bin/svn cleanup /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects layman -S echo "Running update-eix..." update-eix --quiet echo "Running revdep-rebuild" revdep-rebuild --ignore --pretend --no-color rm -f /.revdep-rebuild.* echo "show openGL selection" eselect --no-color opengl list So my daily routine is to check the email from cron, then as long as nothing big needs to be updated, run emerge -uDNav where I examine the use flags, particularly the not selected ones. For big updates like kde and gcc, I wait for the weekend then check for any updating issues (b.g.o., forums, this list). HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list