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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login   
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   Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:49:44 GMT   
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   * Niklaus Kuehnis wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > 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?   
      
   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.   
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