Ubuntu shows updates / security updates on shell logins
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Wed Nov 4 16:50:30 UTC 2009
Newly installed Ubuntu 9.10, when you log in over ssh you may see:
34 packages can be updated.
10 updates are security updates.
I think this is a nice feature, because many administrators will log
in to servers remotely over ssh and never see the graphical
indications from packagekit et al.
Actually I was trying to work out how it's implemented. The text goes
into /etc/motd, and as near as I can tell, the Ubuntu "update-manager"
(roughly equivalent of PackageKit) rewrites it whenever packages
become available or get installed. Is this something that PackageKit
could also do?
Rich.
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