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Every time I ssh in? Just habit.
I have a cron job that runs once a day which
apt-get -qq updateto pull all the updatesapt-get -Vqs upgradeto fake an upgrade, which would list out what packages are out-dated.apt-get upgradeI have yum -y update on a daily cron.
I use yum-updatesd to get notification whenever there is an update
I like to do the upgrades all manually on every single VPS and Dedicated box -O_
@LowEndAdmin I dislike running anything that messes with an OS automatically. I want to see if errors are going by.
@drmike
read again
I do... apt-get dist-upgrade n_n
Fairly similar to LEA's setup. Though I've got a single VPS that collaborates the results from everything else (along with other checks) and gives me reports to go over in the evenings.
What does this do exactly?
I don't update often :X
@camarg read it again yourself. How do I know if it's really working unless I see it happening? How do I know if the apt-get runs correctly?
I use Ubuntu so I have unattended-upgrades configured. It emails me when there are upgrades available (apticron package) and then perform an upgrades and email me the results. NAGIOS monitor also monitors for available updates and if they are security updates (critical) OR normal updates (warning)
And again how do you know that you're receiving all of your emails? Or it's picking up all of the updates. From your statement @Asim, you only get the email if everything works.
Well, no system is fail proof but this is how I know I am getting my emails
I have nagios monitors on every node, it monitors for disk, http, mail server, ssh etc and even the mail queue. So the emails are in good position
I login and check VPS when things are not working as per my nagios farm (not one installation but three ... one HOME, other DE, third US)
Three of my nodes are now 400days+, and this works for me
I cannot do manual because I have approx 30+ VMs
dont have time to login to each and everyone of them unless there is an issue
@drmike - every time to you login via ssh? Is it in your .profile? :-)
You can simulate upgrade with -s parameter.
¬_¬ RTFM
The same can be said of -any- application or script. This is why testing exists, no?
Fixed.
And just because testing works doesn't mean it's going to work when done in real. I would have thought all those Mythbusters episodes where the small scale works and the full size test blows up would have taught folks that by now.
And what's wrong with my .profile?
# ~/.profile: executed by Bourne-compatible login shells. if [ "$BASH" ]; then if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi fi mesg nNot quite. Doing something yourself doesn't guarantee accuracy or perfection. Just ask AlienVPS about what happens when you run your own untested code on a router.
Testing between identical environments is not the same as testing to scale. Regardless, your statement is a bit nonsensical there. If testing doesn't work... what you do you? Deploy and pray?
If testing doesn't work, you fix it.
And I only pray for my ex.