automatic update notifer

[Derek Broughton]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:

> reading through cron file, i noticed the apt cache checks, do you have
> package managers running a lot during the day? adept or synaptic or even
> apt-get and aptitude in a terminal, do you run these programs a lot? if
> any one of them is running, the cron job would not run, since the
> package database would be reported in use.
 
I've had that situation often enough - IF you have a working local SMTP
you'll get an email from cron, but I'm not sure if you'll ever know with a
default Ubuntu setup (and of course, if you don't have "root"'s email
directed to somewhere you can read it...
-- 
derek