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Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:09:16 +0100
From: Niklaus Kuehnis
Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login
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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).
Thanks,
Nik
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