How-To: email notification upon available package updates with cron-apt

Published in www.debuntu.org - 02-02-2008

cron-apt is a tool run by a cron job at regular interval that will check for package updates and optionally do some actions. cron-apt will by default download the packages without installing them. This tutorial will explain how to set up cron-apt in order to have it send an email to a specified address when updates are ready to be installed. read more