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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Automatic update script issue (Ubuntu server) Post 302691275 by Raxje on Friday 24th of August 2012 06:06:17 AM

08-24-2012

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Automatic update script issue (Ubuntu server)

Hi,

I've created a very basic script to run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade unattended (run with cron) and save the logs. Though, it's not really a script, just a file containing the commands to run in order: pasteit .com/18601

I'm currently testing this and ran into some unexpected behavior during the recent Kernel upgrade: pasteit .com/18602

It appears the grep for the Kernel name kicked in and restarted the server before the upgrade even started. Does apt-get dist-upgrade run in the background or should the script wait for the process to finish before proceeding to the next step?

The following day it then did it correctly but in a non-test scenario it wouldn't run for another month pasteit .com/18603

I'm basically trying to find out if this is a script error. Someone else mentioned that they checked the server the day it failed to update and apt-get dist-upgrade said there were no outstanding patches but I can't confirm this.

Any help would be appreciated!
Raxje

P.S. I realize that the -q is not required, will remove that!

Raxje

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GCHEM3D(1)						       gnome-chemistry-utils							GCHEM3D(1)

NAME

       gchem3d - a small chemical viewer application

SYNOPSIS

       gchem3d [OPTION(S)...] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       gchem3d is a small chemical viewer application, which can show several chemical file formats.

OPTIONS

       The following options are accepted:

       -b COLOR, --bgcolor=COLOR
	   Use the given color as background color.  COLOR can be one of "black" (default), "white", "#rrggbb" (don't forget to escape the "#"
	   character in the shell).

       -d MODEL, --display3d=MODEL
	   Choose how molecules are displayed.	MODEL can be one of "BallnStick" (default), "SpaceFill".

       -?, --help
	   Show application help options.

       --help-all, --help-*
	   Print all or just a group of help options. These options are not documented here. Instead see gtk-options(7) and gnome-options(7).

       -v, --version
	   Print gchem3d version information.

SEE ALSO

       gnome-options(7), gtk-options(7)

AUTHORS

       Jean Brefort <jean.brefort@normalesup.org>
	   Program author.

       Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert@wgdd.de>
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