APT-DATER(8) [FIXME: manual] APT-DATER(8)NAME
apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager
SYNOPSIS
apt-dater [[-(c config|v|[n]r)]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the apt-dater command.
apt-dater is a program to manage package updats on a large number of remote hosts using SSH.
OPTIONS
apt-dater accepts the following command parameters:
-c config
Use alternative config file. Default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf.
-v
Show apt-dater version and copyright statement.
-r
Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater must be compiled with XMLREPORT feature.
-n
Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report (useful for cronjobs which do not have access to SSH key(s)).
ENVIRONMENT
MAINTAINER
The maintainer's name (i.e. used by debtrack). If not set, the GECOS entry for the current user will be used. This environment variable
could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1) SendEnv+AcceptEnv options.
FILES
~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf
The configuration file of apt-dater
~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.conf
Contains all hosts you would like to manage
SEE ALSO apt-dater.conf(5), aptitude(1), apt-get(1), debtrack, screen(1), ssh(1).
AUTHORS
Andre Ellguth <ellguth@ibh.de>
Maintainer.
Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
Maintainer.
Jens Haser <jens_dd@hotmail.de>
Fixed some UI glitches.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008-2012 IBH IT-Service GmbH [http://www.ibh.de/]
[FIXME: source] May 29, 2012 APT-DATER(8)
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CRON-APT(8) System Manager's Manual CRON-APT(8)NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get
SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.
cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
--help
Show summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in
/etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
apt-get (1)
aptitude (1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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