NAME

       cron-apt — program to update the system using apt-get

SYNOPSIS

       cron-apt [configfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.

       cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to
       apt-get line by line in file order.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options  starting  with
       two  dashes  (`-').   A summary of options is included below.  For a complete description,
       see the Info files.

                 --help
                 Show summary of options.

CONFIGURATION

       Configuration can  be  done  by  editing  /etc/cron-apt/config  and  by  adding  rules  to
       /etc/cron-apt/action.d/  The  variables  that  you  can  set  in  /etc/cron-apt/config  is
       documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config

       From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get (1)

       aptitude (1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist  ola@inguza.com  for  the  Debian  GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).  This manual is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License  as  published  by  the
       Free  Software  Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
       version.

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