painintheapt(8)

NAME

painintheapt - Pester people about available package updates by email or jabber.

Pain in the APT pesters people about available package upgrades, just like apticron or cron-apt. However, it does so by SMTP and XMPP (direct or MUC/conference room or pubsub node), but also by calling mailx.

WHAT DOES IT DO?

1.: updates the APT cache and checks for updates

2.: sends list of available updates to Jabber contacts or a conference room or pubsub node immediately

3.: sends list of available updates and relevant changelogs (slow) to email recipients

4.: downloads packages, but does not install them

Messages are only sent when there is any change in either the list of updates or in the configuration of painintheapt.

OPTIONS

-c, --configfile configuration file: configuration file, (defaults: /etc/painintheapt.conf)

-d, --debug: print debug output to stderr

-f, --force: send message, even if updates did not change

-h, --help: print help

-s, --stampfile stamp file: stamp file (default: /var/lib/painintheapt/stamp)

-t, --testmessage: send a test message only

-v, --version: print version

CONFIGURATION

The default configuration file is /etc/painintheapt.conf in inifile format.

There are up to three sections, SMTP, XMPP, and MAILX. The keys for SMTP are server, port, username, password_file, from, to, cc, and send_changes. The keys for XMPP are jid, password_file, to, room, pubsub_service, pubsub_node, and send_changes. The keys for MAILX are from, to, cc, and send_changes. See the sample configuration for their usage.

The typical cron file is /etc/cron.d/painintheapt. One may call painintheapt without arguments daily, and with the --force option weekly, to make sure the transport does work.

It is highly recommended to set the accompanying logo as Jabber avatar for the respective user.

RESOURCES

•: Homepage: <https://salsa.debian.org/debacle/painintheapt>

LICENSE

Affero General Public License 3 or higher

LOGO

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AUTHOR

Martin < <[email protected]> >