Am Sa, den 01.11.2003 schrieb Ben Russo um 03:49: > Mike Vanecek wrote: > You could write a cronjob that runs the appropriate apt-get command to > check for updates > and then (if available updates are detected) sends you an e-mail. > No need to. There already is a cronjob for nightly yum updates. Copy it and edit the commandline to "yum -check-update" and get the output as mail. :-) Christoph