[Gllug] Automatic apt-get dist-upgrade

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:00:25PM +0000, 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 ...

hi Rich,

I don't know about a package, but the following simple script does it
for me:

#!/bin/sh

# run dpkg update
# quiet + simulate

apt-get -qq update

apt-get -qq -s upgrade

#eof

hth,

ben.

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