The more I read the confuser I get.

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Sa, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Ben Russo um 03:49:
> Mike Vanecek wrote:

> You could write a cronjob that runs the appropriate apt-get command to 
> check for updates
> and then (if available updates are detected) sends you an e-mail.
> 
No need to. There already is a cronjob for nightly yum updates. Copy it
and  edit the commandline to "yum -check-update" and get the output as
mail. :-)

Christoph