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   Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:56:20 +0100   
   From: Niklaus Kuehnis    
   Subject: starting a console application on first login   
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   Hi,   
      
   I'm running Ubuntu 6.06.1 and Blackbox 0.70.1. As it seems, there is    
   no program running that automatically checks for upgrades. I would    
   like to be notified about package upgrades, though, so I put a script    
   into /usr/sbin that runs apt-get -qq update and apt-get -s -u upgrade    
   as sudo without password.   
      
   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?   
      
   There's an "apt" file in /etc/cron.daily but I don't think I would be    
   notified by that in any circumstances, e.g. when I'm not in console,    
   would I? Any suggestions on how to get this done?   
      
   Thanks,   
   Niklaus   
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