apticron for Debian ------------------- apticron gives you an easy way to have upgrade notifications of your system by email. apticron has the capability to: * send daily emails about pending upgrades in your system; * give you the choice of receiving only those upgrades not previously notified; * automatically integrate to apt-listchanges in order to give you by email the new changes of the pending upgrade packages; * handle and warn you about packages put on hold via aptitude/dselect, avoiding unexpected package upgrades (see #137771); * give you all these stuff in a simple default installation; You can configure the e-mail address apticron will use for mailing changes to and other software options from /etc/apticron/apticron.conf. Actually, apticron performs something you can partially do via cron script provided either by the apt package itself or by the apt-cron package. I suggest you to check the cron script located in /etc/cron.daily/apt first. For a more complex setup, go to cron-apt package. -- Tiago Bortoletto Vaz, Sex Jan 30 14:14:59 BRT 2009