System Administration

Automated Linux Patching with Cron

16th July 2017 in System Administration by Adam Hiscocks

Configuring cron jobs for automated Linux patching is surprisingly easy; as I recently discovered when I wanted to make sure that some of the systems I built stayed fully patched without needing to login and update them manually. I therefore thought I’d share how to automatically update your Linux system […]

Building a Self-Patching WordPress Installation on AWS

15th July 2017 in System Administration tagged automation / cron / updates / wordpress / wp-cron by Adam Hiscocks

Introduction I’ve been playing around with AWS for a while, and had worked out a fairly easy way to keep the underlying OS of my EC2 instance patched; but wanted a way to avoid having to manually update WordPress and all its plugins, templates, etc. I know that it’s generally […]