The process of applying, or files used to apply, improvements to a system or program. An update is typically encompasses minor changes and improvements, relative to an upgrade.
Questions tagged [update]
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What is the Vista equivalent of XP's 'at' command?
I'm trying to automate some jobs and am using the 'at' command on Windows XP. However, Vista doesn't have this.
What do I use instead? It needs to be usable from a batch script as well.

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Necessary proxy exception list for RHEL updates
Anyone know if I need to allow more than *.rhn.redhat.com on 443 & 80 via a proxy exception to allow my RHEL servers to go out and grab updates ? Haven't received the hardware yet, but I'm just trying to get my the list of exceptions to my network…
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Auto-updating a WordPress installation running under nginx
I seem to have zero trouble running WordPress under nginx, save for any attempts to auto-update WordPress itself. I'm able to update plugins easily. When I attempt this with WordPress core, I'm show a white page.
I checked nginx's error logs and I…

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WMIC command to find update
Is there a way to find if multiple MS updates are installed using WMIC command:
wmic qfe | find ?
Thanks

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Prompt to user during startup on Debian
I need to write a script which prompts information to the user in case of an error. Is this possible using /etc/init.d scripts + update-rc.d? Is there any other way?

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Anyone run into issues updating Altiris Deployment Solution to SP2?
We're going to be updating our Altiris Deployment Solution (build 365) to SP2 (build 375) and wanted to know if any of you have done so yet. Were there any issues or hiccups you came across?
Thanks.

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update from debian lenny to squeeze
I'm trying to update from debian lenny to squeeze on my 64bit root server and did the following so far:
modifying sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install linux-image-2.6-amd64
The last step leads to the following…

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Symantec AntiVirus virus definitions file version date is not updating
I'm keeping tabs on a remote sever that is running Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Server 10.1.7.7001. About a month ago, the Virus Definition File version date stopped updating and hasn't updated since - 3/26/2012 rev. 2. The automatic update has…

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Update kvm guests
I'm planning on setting up a new server using kvm. On the host and almost all the vm's I want to use Debian or CentOS. But there came an interesting question to my mind. Since kvm can be scaled up a lot, what is the best way to keep all the guests…

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Scripts has stopped working after apache/php update
I have updated php to 5.3.1 now some of the scripts hosted on my vps have stopped working. This includes whmcs and fantastico. All these scripts are showing a blank page. now debugging each and every script will take a lot of time and clients are…

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Update a war on Tomcat start up
I want to setup an update process for an application running on Tomcat. The server which hosts tomcat is only open during working hours (it is an intraner application for a small company). I was thinking that I could upload the new war to the server…

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Workaround for starting zabbix agent on Ubuntu. update-rc.d LSB mismatch
I am trying to run the zabbix-agent (1.8.1) on boot on Ubuntu (lucid 10.04).
Zabbix is installed just fine, and it manually starts just fine with /etc/init.d/zabbix-agent start
However it doesn't start on boot, because when I run:
sudo update-rc.d…

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dbus dependency with yum
Whenever, I try and run yum update I get the following error:
[root@server ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: dellsysid, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror01.idc.hinet.net
* extras: mirror01.idc.hinet.net
*…

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CentOS 5.8 update from CentOS 5.7
'yum list updates' doesn't show centos-release for 5.8 on some CentOS 5.7 machine.
What does this happen?
machine A
[dnd@one:~]$ yum list updates | grep centos-release
[dnd@one:~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
machine…

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php 5.3 and libxml2 nightmare
My CentOS 5.7 ships with libxml2 2.6.26 that is very outdated and also causes many problems with my current PHP 5.3.3. I need to update libxml2 to 2.7.8 version or at least 2.7.3+ i've readed many posts, used google to find a solution but i'm really…

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