Re: Script for when system was last updated
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On 2008-06-03 22:24, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Monday 02 June 2008 23:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> 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.
> Hi Doug. Thanks for the suggestion. I have a whole bunch of distros that I use
> on this machine, which is why I often lose track of when I last updated them.
> I don't retrieve e-mail on any of them, and collect my mail on the other
> machine which is running the really ancient FC2.
>
> Mumia's suggestion put me on the right path, and as you may have seen, I've
> now resolved the problem.
Another approach might be to use update-manager or update-notifier, once
they return to testing [1].
Johannes
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/u/update-manager.html
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