apticron will configure a cron job to email.
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How to change the email interval for apticron?
I have a VPS running Ubuntu 12.04 Server. Apticron sends out daily emails when there are updates available. I want to change this to weekly.
I looked at the configuration options in /etc/apticron/apticron.conf, but that does not list an option to…
arjan
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Apticron does not send any emails
I've installed Apticron a few days ago, but I'm not getting any emails even though I've edited /etc/apticron/apticron.conf and changed EMAIL= MY@MAIL.COM.
Does anyone have any ideas? I got Mailx installed and working properly and I'm able to send…
user4085884
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Why doesn't apticron ever send me emails?
I installed apticron and configured it with a certain email address, but it never seems to send any emails.
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After upgrade to Ubuntu 18, apticron email subject is not showing the System anymore
We have apticron on our servers that will send emails when there are pending package upgrades. The emails have a subject like this:
30 Ubuntu package update(s) for name-of-server
After the major upgrade from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18 the server name…
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