Re: Script for when system was last updated
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of
> updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. Looking at
> my saved history files, I hadn't updated for nearly 2 months.
>
> I save the history from the updates in /home/user_name/history-files, and
> label these according to the date when I updated. For example 20080528.
>
> Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would put
> up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot up Lenny?
>
> Much appreciation to all you scripting gurus out there.
No idea since I don't run kde.
Why not decide how often you want to update/upgrade and write a
one-liner script to put in crontab to email root "Its time to update the
system".
Doug.
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