ubuntu_update_checker

A simple Bash script to check for Ubuntu updates and email them to you.

I like to use this in combination with Ubuntu's Unattended Upgrades so that security updates are installed automatically and I schedule this script with a cron job every 6 hours. This gives me a chance to at least read up on application updates to see if something is going to break.

Requirements

You will need sendmail or postfix installed.

Output will look like:

Just be sure to make the script executable ie chmod +x update_checker.sh edit the from_addr and to_addr constants.