Thanks for the Drush tip. http://acquia.com/blog/drupal-cli-utils looks promising but it is erroring out at the moment. On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:52 -0500, Jamie Holly wrote:

It might not be the exact solution you are looking for, but I have done similar things with the iMacro add on for Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863

That way you can create a macro to actually put the site in offline mode, then run update.php and then return it to online mode. I haven't actually used it for update.php, but have used it for a lot of other repetitive things I have to do in Drupal.

(fyi - it looks like a feature request is in for update.php handling in Drush, but it isn't yet committed)

Jamie Holly

Nabil Alsharif wrote:

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Hi every one,

I'm going to be maintaining a bunch of drupal sites. I'm trying to automate as much of maintenance as possible and one of the things I would like to do is update the database via a script, basically run update.php with the latest upgrades selected. The problem is that I can't just wget update.php and I didn't see any thing helpful in the scripts directory. Even worse is that google came up with Nil.

Any one have any ideas on how I could do that?

Thanks.

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