<div dir="ltr"><div><div>We are moving from arch to centos here my current job.<br><br></div>arch has a habit of "upgrading" key components and making your box UN-bootable.<br><br></div>I would HIGHLY suggest that you run the update by hand and reboot. You can put the pacman bits in rc.local... but I warned you :)<br>
<div><br><br></div><div> -Erik-<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com" target="_blank">savithari@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Friends:<div><br></div><div>My dev env is archlinux inside virtualbox. I chose arch after coming from ubuntu.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since arch is a rolling update OS, the upgrades/updates are minimal risk and apparently a natural progression from ubuntu.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The issue I face is to run packman -Syu on Thu nights when I am not around.</div><div><br></div><div>I use vboxmanage on Windoze to clone the vm.<br></div><div><br></div><div>
What I would like to do after above step is to </div><div><br></div><div>start vm (this can be done with vboxmanage)</div><div>==> run pacman as root as soon as vm starts so I can auto update the OS <==</div>
<div><br></div><div>The above step is what I am looking for a solution.</div><div><br></div><div>Kindly help.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Narahari</div></font></span></div>
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