[packagekit] running without a head via cron

[Sebastian Heinlein]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.03.2008, 14:04 -0500 schrieb Matthew Miller:
> 
> That's one level of it. The next level is: if we were unplugged from
> the
> network for three hours, we probably don't want to complain. If we're
> unplugged for a day, maybe we want to make a little bit of noise. If
> we're
> unable to get updates for a week, we want to be louder about it. But
> at the
> same time, we don't want to annoy people with a storm of messages. 

What you perhaps want is a Nagios plugin. There is no need to rewrite
all of the notification handling. I use the APT check plugin on many of
my servers. So you could report security updates as critical and normal
updates as a warning.

Cheers,

Sebastian
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