Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:32:14 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Jo Galara <jogalara@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E-Mail if updates available? Message-ID: <20110330093214.34886my6wjnii2rk@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <4D92C02F.4000500@gmail.com> References: <4D92C02F.4000500@gmail.com>
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Quoting Jo Galara <jogalara@gmail.com> (from Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:31:27 +0200): > Hi, > > on Debian I'm using apticron which sends me an email if there are > updates available for installed packages. Is there a similar program for > FreeBSD? If you have portupgrade installed you can change /etc/periodic.conf: ---snip--- weekly_status_pkg_enable="YES" pkg_version="/usr/local/sbin/portversion -O" pkg_version_index="" ---snip--- This will tell you in the weekly mail about ports which could be updated. Bye, Alexander. -- Love thy neighbor, tune thy piano. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137
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