apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager
apt-dater
[[-(c config|v|[n]r)]]
This manual page documents briefly the apt-dater
command.
apt-dater is a program to manage package updates on a large
number of remote hosts using SSH.
apt-dater accepts the following command parameters:
-c config
Use alternative config file. Default is
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml.
-v
Show apt-dater version and copyright statement.
-r
Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater
must be compiled with XMLREPORT feature.
-n
Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report
(useful for cronjobs which do not have access to SSH key(s)).
MAINTAINER
The maintainer's name (i.e. used by debtrack). If
not set, the GECOS entry for the current user will be used. This environment
variable could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1) SendEnv+AcceptEnv
options.
~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml
The configuration file of apt-dater
~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.xml
Contains all hosts you would like to manage
apt-dater.xml(5), apt-get(1), debtrack, ssh(1), XDG Base
Directory Specification[1].
Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
maintainer
Andre Ellguth
ex-maintainer
Copyright © 2008-2014 IBH IT-Service GmbH
[https://www.ibh.de/]
- 1.
- XDG Base Directory Specification
http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec