Linux Automatic Updates and Maintenance

Automatic Linux Updates

This script is meant to be scheduled to run on a regular basis.

• set EMAIL to 1 for sending an encrpted email to a recippeint.
• maintenance-log generates a log put into /var/log and maintenance-log-rotate rotates that log on a monthly basis for 6 months

For set it and forget it, put into the /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.weekly, or /etc/cron.monthly folders

This is a work in progress.

If emailing with this log.

• Using postfix. Instructions are here.
• Able to encrypt emails from command line. Instructions are here

Update permissions on both

sudo 700 maintenance-log-rotate

sudo 700 maintenance-log

Using maintenance-log

• Move maintenance-log-rotate to /etc/logrotate.d/
  • sudo mv maintenance-log-rotate /etc/logrotate.d/
• Move maintenance-log into /etc/cron.weekly/ for weekly updates
  • sudo mv maintenance-log /etc/cron.weekly/