I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines
there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other
two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just
about the same packages on all three machines.

Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines
to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared
the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am
wondering if it is something I did on the desktop?

-Eric


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> Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines
> to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared
> the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am
> wondering if it is something I did on the desktop?

A cron job to update && upgrade?


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On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:33:41PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines
> there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other
> two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just
> about the same packages on all three machines.
>
> Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines
> to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared
> the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am
> wondering if it is something I did on the desktop?
>

Even though the sources list are all the same, that doesn't tell us what
they are. Send them along. It also depends on if the one 'busy' box
has a lot more packages installed.

OTOH, I'm running Etch on three boxes. I just did a minimal install on
a 486 (surrogatly) and the only security update is the kernel.

My other i386 box that I installed fro CD1 has more stuff and I think it
has had more updates required.

My third box is an amd64 that I've been running since Etch was beta-3;
it has has _many_ updates.

Doug.


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Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines
> there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other
> two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just
> about the same packages on all three machines.
>
> Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines
> to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared
> the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am
> wondering if it is something I did on the desktop?

Pick one of the packages that needs an update that you think should
also need update on the other machines. Check the version of that
package on all three machines.

dpkg -l SOMEPACKAGE

If the version is the same on all machines then I would agree with you
that something is updating the other machines. Did you install and
configure cron-apt? But if the version is different then probably
your sources.list file is different or you are not updating the
indexes with 'apt-get update' and so the machine is working off of old
index files.

apt-get update

And if the machines not needing the update don't have it install then
of course they don't need the security update. :-)

Bob


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Eric A. Bonney wrote:
> I have 3 different machines all running Debian. On one of the machines
> there are always updates that are needing to be applied. On the other
> two I don't ever see anything that needs to be applied and we have just
> about the same packages on all three machines.
>
> Is there a feature somewhere that I might have setup on the two machines
> to automatically apply the updates without asking me? I have compared
> the /etc/apt/source.lst files and they all are the same, so I am
> wondering if it is something I did on the desktop?
>
> -Eric
>
>

Take a look at /etc/cron.daily/apt. Configuration varibles used in it
are defined in /etc/apt/apt.conf.


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