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Re: Automatic dist-upgrade for security update



Jean-Michel Besnard <besnard@tekkno.net> writes:

> I am looking for a way to notice the admin when a package has to be
> updated.

> I was thinking about a script that would apt-get update && apt-get
> dist-upgrade --simulate |mail root@foobar every hour if dist-upgrade
> --simulate had an output different than : 0 packages upgraded, 0
> newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

You might want to look at cron-apt.

apt-cache show cron-apt
apt-get install cron-apt
man cron-apt

-- 
Christian Egli
wyona: research & development
http://www.wyona.com


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