Configuring apticron

I recently wrote about using apticron to keep track of package updates required on your Ubuntu or Debian server. It turns out that the instructions linked to from that post are out of date.

When apticron is installed (on the one Debian and two Ubuntu versions I’ve tested this with) there is no configuration requested. Instead, the default is to mail the update notice to root on the local box. To change this, edit the EMAIL field of /etc/apticron/apticron.conf. I’ve found that no other configuration changes were required.

I’ll post more on setting up a simple mail handler Real Soon Now.™

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