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NAME

       cron-apt — program to update the system using apt-get

SYNOPSIS

       cron-apt [configfile]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.

       cron-apt   is  a  program  that  uses  the  information  in  /etc/cron-
       apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU  command  line  syntax,  with  long
       options  starting  with  two  dashes  (‘-’).   A  summary of options is
       included below.  For a complete description, see the Info files.

                 --help
                 Show summary of options.

CONFIGURATION

       Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding
       rules  to  /etc/cron-apt/action.d/  The  variables  that you can set in
       /etc/cron-apt/config is documented  in  the  configuration  example  in
       /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config

       From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is depricated.

SEE ALSO

       apt-get (1)

       aptitude (1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).   This  manual  is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
       of the GNU General Public License as published  by  the  Free  Software
       Foundation;  either  version  2 of the License, or (at your option) any
       later version.