On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:13:40AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 05:09:20PM +0200, Martin T wrote: > > I would like to run a cron job which periodically checks if I have > > upgradable packages. One way to do it is probably like this: > > > > $ apt-get upgrade -s | grep -q "^0 upgraded" > > But you have to run apt-get update first, AS root. (Your subject line > includes the phrase "as a non-root user", but you neglected to include > this important piece of information in the body of the email. I say > this now, because someone might change the subject header later.) > root is needed for the update, maybe what you search is cron-apt ;) https://debian-administration.org/article/162/A_short_introduction_to_cron-apt -- I'm just a placeholder for a really awesome signature... ...that is still missing *sob*
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature