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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Updating Glue records on thousands of domains
I am in the process of migrating a web server which has a few thousand small sites, and does its own DNS. Each site has a hostname in the form of "customer.ourcompany.com" and some also have "www.customersdomainname.com".
When we do the migration,…
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Shutting down Openstack server and virtual machines
When I shutdown Openstack compute host (for example reboot required by updates) what happens to virtual machines that were running on that host?
I know that when host starts again the virtual machines are in shutdown state. But were they shutdown…
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"apt-get -y upgrade" in cron task runs but does not upgrade the system
This server runs Debian 7 and I'm facing a big mystery.
Here are my cron tasks:
$ sudo crontab -e
42 15 * * * apt-get -y update >> /var/log/my-apt-update.txt
52 15 * * * apt-get -y upgrade >> /var/log/my-apt-upgrade.txt
I added the ">>…
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Not all updates syncing between WSUS and SCCM 2012
I have a single server with both WSUS and SCCM 2012 R2 installed. I'm pretty sure everything is configured correctly. The only errors I'm seeing in the wsyncmgr.log file when I do a full synchronization relates to problems downloading EULA's for…
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Why does wusa fail with "The System cannot find the file specified"?
On Windows 7 or later, attempting to use wusa.exe to install a CAB file containing a Windows update returns error 0x80070002 (-2147024894), "The System cannot find the file specified".
I've tried quoting the full path to the file, running the…
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mcafee local automatic update
I'm working in a intranet with 50 machines and I'd like to set up mcafee to have each machine update its engine et virus definitions on a local FTP.
How to set up this configuration and what are the files to download from mcafee website to put on…
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What could cause DNS to un-propagate?
I moved a Godaddy domain (ihearthawaii.com) to a digital ocean droplet around 15 hours ago. Tracking the DNS Propagation through sites like (whatsmydns.net), I notice that the propagation is struggling. It will propagate to certain servers, but…
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Which apt options for a safe automatic update
Related to my previous question, what apt options should one use when upgrading a package so that:
if other packages would be removed as a result of the upgrade, apt will stop without touching anything
if new packages would be installed as a result…
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RSS feed/email list to be notified about java updates
I'm doing upgrades of JDK on our servers regularly. But because Oracle JDK installed via custom packages (not via package manager) I need way to be notified about updates.
Are there way to be notified about java (JDK) updates? RSS (preferred) or…
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Prevent update-manager from overwriting my Configs
After installing a package with apt-get and then overwriting some package specific config files, whenever the system upgrades itself it tries to overwrite my custom configs with the package default ones.
Is there a better way to specific custom…
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Windows updates, Anti-virus updates for Air gapped hosts
I just took over as an admin for a network that uses corporate imaged hosts, to manage various special purpose machines.
These hosts directly connect to the equipment they are managing via Serial or ethernet(cross-ver), with absolutely no internet…
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How to make partial update in Ubuntu
I have two general questions how to show updates content and how to make partial update for example I want to update only nginx and don't touch other environment.
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Keep RHEL at a particular minor revision level?
I'm working with a large database platform (Or#&%@) that requires a specific revision level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case, it needs EL6.2 in order to retain support and compatibility with several DB features that we intend to use.
What…
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Safely update php 5.3.3 to >=5.3.4 on centos 6
Would the following works fine without any issues? I have apc cache installed, the other packages the usual php configuration.
yum update php
would that be enough?
it is an active server, so want to make sure and see what should I take into…
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Check for updates of a specific Debian package list
The setup
I run a Debian Squeeze host that I use to build a multilanguage project (python, java, php...) and generate custom packages (debian and RPM) automatically (through jenkins)
The problem
The target distributions of those Debian packages are…
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