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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)