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   From: Florian Diesch    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login   
   Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:46:33 +0100   
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   Niklaus Kuehnis  wrote:   
      
   > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, SINNER wrote:   
   >   
   >> * Niklaus Kuehnis wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >>> Hi,   
   >>   
   >>> I'm booting to console. Is it possible to run that script on every   
   >>> day's first login? If so, what's the easiest and cleanest way of   
   >>> doing that?   
   >>   
   >> If you use anacron (installed by default, at least in Ubuntu 6.06), make   
   >> it a cron job that runs once a day or add it to /etc/cron.daily, if the   
   >> machine was off, anacron will run it when you turn it on, otherwise it   
   >> will run once per day.   
   >   
   > Hmmm, doing console notification with anacron doesn't seem that simple   
   > as it runs in the background and, by default, starts only 5 minutes   
   > after boot. I will try using anacron, writing the apt-get output to a   
   > file and echoing part of it on login (through .bash_profile) if there   
   > are updates available. That will be a bit of work, though. The   
   > standard notification method would be through e-mail, I guess, but   
   > making anacron send an e-mail depending on apt-get output doesn't seem   
   > trivial (to me).   
      
      
   ,----[ ~/bin/pkgdesc apticron ]   
   | Package: apticron   
   | Description: cron-script to mail impending apt updates   
   |  apticron is a simple script to mail about impending apt updates   
   |  such as security updates.   
   `----   
      
   ,----[ ~/bin/pkgdesc cron-apt ]   
   | Package: cron-apt   
   | Description: automatic update of packages using apt-get   
   |  Contains a tool that is run by a cron job at regular intervals. By default   
   it   
   |  just updates the package list and download new packages without installing.   
   |  You can instruct it to run anything that you can do with apt-get   
   |  (or aptitude).   
   |  .   
   |  It can optionally sends mail to the system administrator on errors, log   
   |  to syslog or a separate log file.   
   |  .   
   |  Observe that this tool may be a security risk, so you should not set it   
   |  to do more than necessary. Automatic upgrade of all packages is NOT   
   |  recommended unless you are in full control of the package repository.   
   `----   
      
      
      
      
      Florian   
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