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oops (was Re: Alas and alack.)



> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:26, Bob Paige wrote:
> > I would like to see a system that 
> > automatically notifies you (via email?) when such an update results in 
> > new packages being installed.
> > 
> > Ideas?
> > 

How about a cron job that runs apt-get --upgrade --dry-run? That, if I
read the man page correctly, will generate a list of available updates.
And cron will email the list is asked to.

-- 
Glenn English
ghe@slsware.com



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