On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:11:56 Shaun Crossley wrote:
You might be interested in this script I came up with upon reading this thread. I called it apt-show-versions and placed it in /etc/cron.daily (and made it executable via chmod +x).
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#!/bin/sh # /etc/cron.daily/apt-show-versions: email alerts when new packages # are available # # 2003-03-10, Shaun Crossley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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/usr/bin/apt-show-versions -u | /usr/bin/mail -e \ -s "`/bin/hostname`: updated packages available" $ADMINMAIL
Oh, and by the way -- please change the ADMINMAIL line to use your own email address. Otherwise you'd be notifying me about the packages your computer needs!
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