Re: Suse 10 problems - SSH

houghi wrote:

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However if there are connections done to/from the internet, then
automated updates should be done, unless you have the knowledge and time
to keep up with security updates and do them yourself.

What you can do is (I am looking at 10.3, so naming can be a bit
different) go to YaST, Software, Automatic Online Update. There you
enable the update and set an hour you desire.

Then _most importantly_ you enable 'skip interactive patches'. Then not
only kernels, but other patches that need something to be done, will get
skipped.

houghi

Put this in cron:

zypper up -t patch --skip-interactive

Vahis
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