[Gllug] debian security updates

[John Edwards]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Doug Winter wrote:
> Craig Millar wrote:
>> Are their better ways to do this? Any tools that handle this task?
> 
> apt-get install cron-apt?
> 
> doug.

Or if you are running Sarge and just want to be emailed about any 
updates that are needed try apticron:

$ dpkg -s apticron
Package: apticron
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Colm MacCarthaigh <colm.maccarthaigh at heanet.ie>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1.12
Depends: apt-listchanges (>= 2.59), mailx, debconf, coreutils, iproute
Conffiles:
 /etc/apticron/apticron.conf de4105ed400c0a4185c39c164ac70338
 /etc/cron.daily/apticron 9f2bc73e6b05af5c488f0ce8be47fb2f
Description: cron-script to mail impending apt updates
 apticron is a simple script to mail about impending apt updates
 such as security updates.


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