{"id":1344,"date":"2013-08-15T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2013-08-15T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T10:48:23","slug":"get-email-notification-when-security-updates-available-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/get-email-notification-when-security-updates-available-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Email Notification When Security Updates Available on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will install a package called <i>Apticron<\/i>, which is a simple script sends daily emails about pending package updates such as security updates, properly handling packages on hold both by deselect and aptitude.<\/p>\n<p>Apticron is available in Ubuntu&#8217;s universe repository. You can install it via apt-get command, or just search for and install the package from Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/email-updates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/email-updates.jpg\" alt=\"email for ubuntu updates\" width=\"460\" height=\"189\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/email-updates.jpg 460w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/email-updates-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, edit the config file <b>\/etc\/apticron\/apticron.conf<\/b>. Enter your email address by replacing root with your email address.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p># apticron.conf<br \/>\n#<br \/>\n# set EMAIL to a space separated list of addresses which will be notified of<br \/>\n# impending updates<br \/>\n#<br \/>\n<b>EMAIL=&#8221;root&#8221;<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Save and close the file.<\/p>\n<p>When updates are available you will get an email once a day. When no updates are available, apticron doesn&#8217;t send any email.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will install a package called Apticron, which is a simple script sends daily emails about pending package updates such as security updates, properly handling packages on hold both by deselect and aptitude. Apticron is available in Ubuntu&#8217;s universe repository. You can install it via apt-get command, or just search for and install the package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[455,456],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-email-updates","tag-get-email-when-updates-available"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}