Re: Announcing apt-watch: a Gnome 2 panel applet to check for upgrades
Hi
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:53:44PM +0000, Rob Bradford wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 15:24, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > This is just a note to anyone who's interested. I still have some
> > more finals, and then a bunch of Real Life stuff, so I won't be working
> > on this much in the near future (next week or two)
>
> A few months ago i released a little script
> http://www.robster.org.uk/files/security-update-check.py
I have missed that you released such a thing.
> Which is intended to be run from a cronjob on a daily basis to let you
> know if there are updates in the security archive and provide a short
> bit of information where available about such updates.
Intresting. Could be very useful in package cron-apt.
> It does not require root or anything like that and if you just add this
> as a cronjob you will only get sent a mail if there are updates as it
> only gives output in that scenario.
>
> But no one seemsed very interested in it at the time :(
I'm interested. :)
> Dependencies include python2.2 and python-xml
Hmm it is possible rewrite using shell-scripts?
If so I could add another option to cron-apt that checks for
security updates and informs about them.
> Regards,
Regards,
// Ola
> Rob
>
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