hony gennard wrote:
> I am looking at the contents of my boot log file; when trying to get out of
> the very long file I thought Ctrl + c should do it - it does not and I
> cannot
> find any way. I wanted to try tail and head so see how they do. Can anyone
> please help me.
How are you "looking at" the file? I would suggest using less.
You get out of less by pressing q.
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 07:23:28 -0600
From: Charles Curley
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: m...@fuckaround.org
Subject: Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages
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On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:36:36 +0200
P=C3=B2l Hallen wrote:
> like ubuntu, what's the best way to show a notify alert (via
> terminal) about available packages?
I take it you mean, *new* available packages. I don't know how Ubuntu
does it, so I'll tell you what I do. And the answer depends on what you
want to do.
You could install unattended-upgrades, and let that notify you (via
email) of packages it has already upgraded for you and the occasional
reboot required.
If that's a bit too trusting, set a cron job to pull in new packages,
but not install them. I use:
5 3 * * * root sleep $( echo $((1 + RANDOM
\% 1=
200)) ) ; /usr/bin/apt-get update > /dev/null && /usr/bin/apt-get -dy dist-=
upgrade > /dev/null
The sleep command waits for up to 1200 seconds. That is there because I
have a small herd of computers here and way back when I was on dial-up
I did not want to swamp my connection.
The apt-get update does an update, and throws away the output.
Same with the dist-upgrade. The -d does a download only.
You could follow that with "apt list --upgradable -a" so cron will
email you a list of available upgrades. Or you could run that manually
when you are ready. I just run "apt upgrade" when I am ready. As I
mentioned, I have a small herd of computers. I run a shell script based
on mssh to check all of them for updates.
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:35:17 + (UTC)
From: "mike.junk...@att.net"
To: Dan Ritter ,
"debian-user@lists.debian.org"
Subject: Re: Mail transfer agent
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Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:53:09 +0200
From: john doe
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Returning to /var/log/boot.log
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