apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager

ThomasLiske <liske@ibh.de>
           maintainer

       AndreEllguth
           ex-maintainer

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

       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.

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.

~/.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

       apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager

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

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

apt-dater accepts the following command parameters:

       -cconfig
           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)).

apt-dater.xml(5), apt-get(1), debtrack, ssh(1), XDGBaseDirectorySpecification[1].

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