NAME

       apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager

SYNOPSIS

       apt-dater [[-(c config|v|[n]r)]]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the apt-dater command.

       apt-dater is a program to manage package updates on a large number of remote hosts using SSH.

OPTIONS

       apt-dater accepts the following command parameters:

       -c config
           Use alternative config file. Default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml.

       -v
           Show apt-dater version and copyright statement.

       -r
           Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater must be compiled with XMLREPORT feature.

       -n
           Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report (useful for cronjobs which do not have access
           to SSH key(s)).

ENVIRONMENT

       MAINTAINER
           The maintainer's name (i.e. used by debtrack). If not set, the GECOS entry for the current user will
           be used. This environment variable could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1)
           SendEnv+AcceptEnv options.

FILES

       ~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml
           The configuration file of apt-dater

       ~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.xml
           Contains all hosts you would like to manage

SEE ALSO

       apt-dater.xml(5), apt-get(1), debtrack, ssh(1), XDG Base Directory Specification[1].

AUTHORS

       Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de>
           maintainer

       Andre Ellguth
           ex-maintainer

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2008-2014 IBH IT-Service GmbH [https://www.ibh.de/]

NOTES

        1. XDG Base Directory Specification
           http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec

apt-dater                                       October 23, 2014                                    APT-DATER(8)