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   From: Hadron    
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   Subject: Re: starting a console application on first login   
   Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:45:58 +0100   
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   Niklaus Kuehnis  writes:   
      
   > 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   
      
   create a script file with your update lines in it.   
   call it xxx.org   
   ensure it is on path an executable.   
   make its last line  "rm xxx"   
   add a cron job in cron.daily to just "cp ~/bin/xxx.org ~/bin/xxx" where "bin"   
   is your   
   executable directory.   
   executr "xxx" from your .bashrc.   
      
   The first time it runs it deletes itself. The cron job will replace it a   
   day later.   
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