Autoupdate doesn't work

[AleSSaNDRo]

Directadmin doesn't update automatically why? i have selected "Use the automatic updater to automatically get the lastest version of DirectAdmin."

 

[GranTW]

Neither does it work for me. I guess it has no backend to it.

Maybe John can confirm?

Grant

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

The autoupdate is only used when we force an update to all systems.

Due to the huge bandwitdh load of updating all of our clients at the same time, we have not issued an automatic update for quite some time now.

Disabling the feature will prevent our forced updates from updating your system.

If you want to have your system check for updates nightly and update itself on it's own, a nightly root cronjob that runs the following code would do the trick:

echo "action=update&value=program" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

It does a check before it processes it to ensure you don't update if you already have the newest version so you don't need to worry about it updating every night, it will only do it when there is a new update available.

John

 

[smtalk]

It would be great to have a mirror

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

It's because the amount of false emails we used to get after forcing updates was rediculous. When we forced an update, any minor issue an admin had was automatically blamed on the update, and they sent us emails blaming the update without actually looking at their problem, relalizing it's something completely unrelated. Since they had a problem, and they had just updated, it was instantly assumed that it must be the fault of the update. The majority of those emails were false and cost us a massive amount of time, when the admin could have simply looked up the problem without assuming, and fixed it himself via the normal means (forum, knowledgebase/FAQ). Unfortunately, that's just the reality of it. It's not as much of a bandwidth/load issue.. although at this point, could potentially be without mirrors. It's working fine with the current setup.

John