APT-DATER(8)
NAME
apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager
SYNOPSIS
apt-dater [[-(c config|v|[n]r)]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the apt-dater command.
apt-dater is a program to manage package updats on a large number of
remote hosts using SSH.
OPTIONS
apt-dater accepts the following command parameters:
- -c config
- Use alternative config file. Default is
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf. - -v
- Show apt-dater version and copyright statement.
- -r
- Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater must be
compiled with XMLREPORT feature. - -n
- Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report (useful for cronjobs which do not have access to SSH key(s)).
ENVIRONMENT
- MAINTAINER
- The maintainer's name (i.e. used by debtrack). If not set, the
GECOS entry for the current user will be used. This environment
variable could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1)
SendEnv+AcceptEnv options.
FILES
- ~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf
- The configuration file of apt-dater
- ~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.conf
- Contains all hosts you would like to manage
SEE ALSO
apt-dater.conf(5), aptitude(1), apt-get(1), debtrack, screen(1),
ssh(1).
AUTHORS
- Andre Ellguth <ellguth@ibh.de>
- Maintainer.
- Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
- Maintainer.
- Jens Haser <jens_dd@hotmail.de>
- Fixed some UI glitches.
COPYRIGHT
- Copyright (C) 2008 IBH IT-Service GmbH [http://www.ibh.de/]