Hello. I am trying to write a script to check for updates to the binary
packages by checking the output of pkg_add then sending an e-mail if
something is found. My very simple script is this:
#!/bin/ksh
NEWPKGS=`pkg_add -Iusx | grep -v "^quirks\-"`
if [ "$NEWPKGS" != "" ]; then
# send message to admin...
fi
Does that seem like it should work? Anyone know a better way to check
for updates to packages automatically? I tried reading the code of
pkg_add to see if there was a better way but I wasn't able to find one.
Didn't find anything through searching either.
This is one of those things I'd like to set up in a cron job to run
once a day then forget about it until a message pops up in my Inbox so I'd
like to get it right the first time. Thanks!
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John Merriam
