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 deprecated.

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.

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