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Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?



On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Logrotation is not happening for some reason, so stumbling around

What is output of:
apt-cache policy logrotate

> investigating and ran up on /etc/cron.daily/apt

Are we on the same page here? 

> What is the /etc/cron.daily/apt script supposed to do?

Package management via cron.

> Looking thru the script, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. 

I can see I why it could be confusing. :-) 

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