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Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages

From john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages
Date 2020-09-24 10:40 +0200
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On 9/23/2020 10:36 PM, Pòl Hallen wrote:
> Hi :-)
> like ubuntu, what's the best way to show a notify alert (via terminal)
> about available packages?
>

I can't talk about Ubuntu but you could use a cronjob that checks
periodicly for new updates and use 'wall' to notify the users.

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John Doe

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notify via virtual terminal available packages Pòl Hallen <deben@fuckaround.org> - 2020-09-23 22:50 +0200
  Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-09-24 10:40 +0200
  Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-09-24 15:50 +0200
    Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-24 16:00 +0200
      Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-24 16:40 +0200
        Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-09-24 16:50 +0200
          Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-24 17:00 +0200
          Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via  virtual terminal available packages) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-09-25 09:50 +0200
            Re: Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via  virtual terminal available packages) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-25 13:50 +0200
              Re: Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via  virtual terminal available packages) Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-09-25 14:30 +0200
                Re: Deterministic delays in POSIX shell scripts (Was: Re: notify via  virtual terminal available packages) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-26 04:50 +0200
      Re: notify via virtual terminal available packages Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-09-24 16:40 +0200

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