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 1I0mEt-0003xF-Ue for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:31:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5JMUaax031657; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:30:36 GMT Received: from barracuda-out1.linkline.com (barracuda-out1.linkline.com [64.30.215.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5JMQH6P026856 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:26:18 GMT X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1182291975-509a02bd0000-LfjuLa X-Barracuda-URL: http://64.30.215.67:8000/cgi-bin/mark.cgi X-Barracuda-Connect: host-66-59-225-129.static.linkline.com[66.59.225.129] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1182291975 Received: from [192.168.50.240] (host-66-59-225-129.static.linkline.com [66.59.225.129]) by barracuda-out1.linkline.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 6845F50DEC3 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46785807.4000801@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:26:15 -0700 From: Joshua Doll User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) 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 X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron References: <20070619221845.GH5658@cutie1.lan> In-Reply-To: <20070619221845.GH5658@cutie1.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Barracuda-Virus-Scanned: by Barracuda Spam Firewall at linkline.com X-Archives-Salt: eabedd9a-f3e6-4a86-a746-20276e99e44b X-Archives-Hash: d152e1b9f9dc8a2455460ef7b58fc4b0 Nick wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm planning to set my mother up with a very simple gentoo box, with > only what she needs etc. > > Ideally it should require almost no interaction from me, and just > keep itself working and secure. > > So, I'm planning to run "sudo emerge --sync" and "sudo glsa-check -f > new" from a cron job, perhaps once a week. > > I can set up the sudoers part all fine, but is there anything I > should watch out for / consider when running these maintenance tools > from a cron job? > > Thanks, > > -Nick > > I think cron can run jobs as root. --Joshua Doll -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list