Larry Starr wrote:
> From my install there is a "/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin" which I'm not
> using,
> that provides none of that information.
>
> I believe I will have to implement a wrapper script to, at least, notify me
> when updates have been applied.
>
I patched sa-update to add a verbose option which outputs all the
channel names that had changes. Very simple patch if anyone is
interested. It installs cleanly on 3.2.5, I haven't tried 3.3.
--
Bowie
*** sa-update.raw Wed Mar 26 11:28:18 2008
--- sa-update.raw-patched Wed Mar 26 11:30:42 2008
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*** 136,141 ****
--- 136,142 ----
'help|h|?' => \$opt{'help'},
'checkonly' => \$opt{'checkonly'},
'allowplugins' => \$opt{'allowplugins'},
+ 'verbose|v' => \$opt{'verbose'},
# allow multiple of these on the commandline
'gpgkey=s' => $opt{'gpgkey'},
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*** 435,440 ****
--- 436,447 ----
next;
}
+ # If we are in verbose mode, print the channel name
+ # (not needed in debug mode)
+ if ($opt{'verbose'} and not $opt{'debug'}) {
+ print "$channel\n";
+ }
+
# If we are only checking for update availability, exit now
if ( defined $opt{'checkonly'} ) {
dbg("channel: $channel: update available, not downloading in checkonly
mode");
