Auto update & upgrade your pi with MyController.

[skywatch]

If you want to automate keeping your pi up-to-date then this little script may be for you.

Just copy and save it in a file (I called mine autoupdate.sh - but you can use whatever name you like!) and then use crontab -e to run the above named file whenever you want.

I tested it by daily running, but now it only runs once a week in the early hours of the morning.

#!/bin/sh
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical
sudo bash /home/mycontroller/bin/stop.sh
sleep 15
sudo bash /home/mcagent/bin/stop.sh
sleep 15
sudo -E apt-get -qy update
sudo -E apt-get -qy -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef" -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" upgrade
sudo -E apt-get -qy autoclean
sudo reboot

Maybe some of you might even have improvements to suggest!

[Tag]

@skywatch

Cool!! great work!! :thumbs_up:

Think that the sleep can be replaced with a test if the script is still running. will have a look see what i can find.

[skywatch]

Yeah, I thought about that but 'sleep' seems only to work with processes spawned within the script - or maybe I completely mis-understand it. I'm still learning a lot!

[Tag]

Well, looking at the start and stop scripts, there is a test that looks if mycontroller is running..

ps -ef | grep "org.mycontroller.standalone.StartApp" | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $2 }'

so you could test if the line above returns the pid of mycontroller. If a number (process id) is returned, mycontroller is running, if no data returned, mycontroller is down..

[skywatch]

@Tag

That's brilliant - Thank you!

McAgent is similar, so could work for both.....

I have to take Mum shopping today but will try this out in the script as soon as I can