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   From: ßødincµs²°°°    
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   Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login   
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   Recently, Niklaus Kuehnis popped out over the fence   
   around alt.os.linux.ubuntu and said...   
   |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   
   |   
   ??? Why do you need to do that??? Geekiness = 110%...   
   Use the graph interface (Gnome, KDE of XFC) and that job is done for    
   you automagically...   
      
   Talk about "How To Complicate Simple Tasks"...   
      
   LOL   
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