Micro Maintenance

How to Maintain the Computer Server Micro.stanford.edu

William Cash

Software Updates

The computer is set up to install security updates by itself. But regular updates need to be performed manually by the following steps.

Step 1: login to micro
        If packages need to be updated.  There should be messages like:
         3 packages can be updated.

Step 2: sudo apt-get upgrade

Reboot

It is a good idea to reboot the computer from time to time, by the following command.

 sudo reboot

(We are trying to schedule the computer to reboot automatically every two weeks.)