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 chmod 700 maintenance-log-rotate
sudo chmod 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/