apt-dater(8)

Usage

apt-dater [[{-(c config | v | [n] r)}]]

Overview

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.

Options

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)).

Environment

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.

Files

~/.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

Notes

1.: XDG Base Directory Specification

http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

Referred to by

apt-dater.xml(5) configuration file of apt-dater(8) apt-dater.conf(5) configuration file of apt-dater(8)