Re: /etc/cron.daily/apt obsolete after installing cron-apt?

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2010-06-13, b1 <forum@b1online.de> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Recently I installed cron-apt in order to perform automatic updates and
> in order to get the Summary per E-mail.  
> Now I am wondering whether the /etc/cron.daily/apt script becomes
> obsolete, by installing cron-apt. Can I simply remove
> the /etc/cron.daily/apt script? Or ist it somehow essential?

The file belongs to the apt package itself, so I wouldn't simply remove
it. Instead see the comments in the file about disabling the automatic
update service (assuming you want cron-apt to do the job instead).

>
> Thanks
>
> Benedikt Brandt
>
>

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Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland