February 2008
Automated security updates in Debian « N0T a Blog
by 3 others (via)Subscribing to the security mailing lists is a must for every sysadmin, but who has the stamina and the determination to actually read them, and then analyze the impact of both the threat and the proposed fix?
A more casual user with no life-or-death-critical servers would happily settle for a solution that would download and install the security patches automatically. As always in Linux, there is more than one way of achieving this.
cron-apt works for me.
August 2007
How to make deb packages
by 1 other (via)This detailed how-to shows all the necessary components of a package and how to put them together to end up with a final product.
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