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RE: [cobalt-users] Solving Cobalt Problems



At 10:15 AM 2/27/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> 3.  Inform new owners that they need to upgrade their box as soon as it's
> up and running.  Give a clear explanation describing how they can tell
> which upgrades are necessary to get up to date and which upgrades
> they can
> skip.

Perhaps a Perl/Cron function that does a WGET or some other remote method to
check for the existence of a file on the Cobalt FTP server could trigger an
email to the admin informing them of available updates.
--
Dan Kriwitsky


Sounds like a good idea. Given the history of updates from Cobalt, I'd still like to retain control of when and if updates are installed.

Peter