What does it do?
- Provided by: painintheapt (Version: 0.20251205-1)
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Pain in the APT pesters people about available package upgrades, just like apticron or cron-apt. However, it does so by XMPP (direct, MUC/conference room, or pubsub node), SMTP, or by calling mailx.
Options
- -c, --configfile configuration file
- configuration file, (defaults: /etc/painintheapt.conf)
- -d, --debug
- print debug output to stderr
- -f, --force
- send message, even if updates did not change
- -h, --help
- print help
- -s, --stampfile stamp file
- stamp file (default: /var/lib/painintheapt/stamp)
- -t, --testmessage
- send a test message only
- -v, --version
- print version
Configuration
The default configuration file is /etc/painintheapt.conf in inifile format.
There are up to three sections, XPMP, SMTP, and MAILX.
XMPP
The keys for XMPP are jid, password_file, avatar, to, room, pubsub_service, pubsub_node, send_changes, host, and port. The latter two are only necessary in exceptional cases.
The most simple setup only needs jid, password_file, and to.
It is recommended to set the accompanying logo as Jabber avatar for the respective JID. This can be done automatically by painintheapt.
SMTP
The keys for SMTP are server, port, username, password_file, from, to, cc, and send_changes.
MAILX
The keys for MAILX are from, to, cc, and send_changes.
Usage
painintheapt is typically run from systemd timers. One may call painintheapt without arguments daily, and with the --force option weekly, just to make sure that everything works fine.
Resources
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- Homepage: https://salsa.debian.org/debacle/painintheapt
License
Affero General Public License 3 or higher
Logo
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Author
Martin <debacle@debian.org>