For nice usage statistics, I installed webalizer on my ubuntu server machine and enjoyed the nice diagrams after the first run. It was a bit suspicious, that the hits were such heavily increasing and so I decided to take a look on logrotate and furthermore crontab.

You can now find a drupal upgrade script on github and for drupal modules installation! Beware that this script was written for my site setup and works for me, maybe not for you, as you have other site setups, etc. I wrote it with respect to other setups though, but will never guarantee that :) If you are reluctant, try drush instead - though drush screwed my page up at least :/

Recently, I needed to upgrade my drupal installation and was quite surprised by the complexity of a drupal system update. Therefore, I sum up the steps necessary here, to simplify the process next time.