One of the problems you will have with many (any?) of the solutions
proposed is they rely on the current state of your local apt package
metadata cache. Which is to say, if that is not up-to-date, then you
are only going to get stale information; and you need to be root to
update it.
I would sugge
Hi,
What I have been using for years is a little script to send me (and the
servicedesk) a daily mail:
#!/bin/bash
# MAILREC is space separated
MAILREC="myem...@tio.nl helpd...@tio.nl"
SUBJECT="Upgrade report voor $HOSTNAME"
TMPFILE=/tmp/upgradereport.tmp
# Step 1: update repositories...
apt-ge
On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 17:09 +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:
What do you want to do with the information once you got it? I ask
because Debian includes some packages to do vari
Martin T writes:
> Hi,
>
> 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"
>
> In case exit code is >0, then there are upgradable packages. The
> second solution I ca
On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:09:20 +0200
Martin T wrote:
>
> For me the "apt-get upgrade -s | grep -q "^0 upgraded"" seems to be
> the most reasonable solution, but maybe there is even a better way?
>
>
I've found upgrade-system to be useful, and when installed, it sends a
daily email showing its
On 2016-11-30, Martin T wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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"
>
> In case exit code is >0, then there are upgradable packages. The
> second
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
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
Hi,
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"
In case exit code is >0, then there are upgradable packages. The
second solution I came up with is:
$ for package in $
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