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--- monitoring:observium:auto-update [2025/02/01 13:09] – created Zyzonix
+++ monitoring:observium:auto-update [2025/02/22 15:22] (current) – Zyzonix
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-===== Auto update Observium with crontab =====
+====== Auto update Observium with crontab ======
 Therefore that Observium doesn't use ''APT'' for updating, it can't be upgraded with ''unattended-upgrades'' for example. Nevertheless Observium can automatically be upgraded with a crontab:
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 Create a crontab file with the following content:
-<panel type="info" icon="glyphicon glyphicon-file" title="/etc/cron.weekly/observium-update">
+<panel type="info" icon="glyphicon glyphicon-file" title="/etc/cron.d/observium-update">
 <code bash>
-#!/usr/bin/bash
+# run observium update once a week
 MAILTO=<mail-address>
+6    * * 7   root /bin/bash /opt/observium-update
+</code>
+</panel>
+And create the following file:
+<panel type="info" icon="glyphicon glyphicon-file" title="/opt/observium-update">
+<code bash>
+#!/usr/bin/bash
 echo ""
 echo "» Updating  Observium to latest version «"
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 In case that your system has a proper configured ''mailutils''-package, the output of the crontab will be sent to the configured mail address at ''MAILTO=''.
+Usually one script in ''/etc/cron.weekly'' would be enough, but we discovered, that the setting of ''MAILTO'' is ignored then and mailing will go always to root.