[ale] update announcements

[James Sumners]

Ummm, the URL in my signature. http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/code.php

It does not update automatically. It only notifies you that the system
is out of date. It will continue to do so until you manually update
the machine.

On 7/29/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
> > Check out the update check script for Debian that I have on my site.
> > It is in the "code" section. Schedule it to run once a day and you
> > will get notified when security updates are available. Debian stable
> > doesn't update except for security patches.
>
> Thanks James, got a URL? ;-)
>
> The only issue I have with what you describe, is that I have many
> systems with different applications.  I don't want them updating
> automatically (that needs to be scheduled/planned), and I'd prefer to
> not run extra scripts on all systems.  I'll give it a look though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jim P.


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