[Gllug] Automatic apt-get dist-upgrade

[Paul Cupis]

Richard Jones wrote:
> Now we've got a small network of machines to run, all running
> Debian/stable, I'm wondering whether there are any tools for notifying
> me when there are updated packages that need to be installed.  This
> email: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/07/msg00077.html
> suggests writing shell scripts to download the packages and email the
> sysadmin, but I wonder if there are packages which already do this
> that I should know about ...

aptitude install cron-apt

Edit /etc/cron-apt/config to add

MAILON=upgrade
EXITON=

And away you go... mail is sent daily to root - configurable in the same
file.

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