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I have my servers set up to e-mail me from cron when updates are available. I used to use a custom script to do this, until recently (Pacman 4.1?) I discovered that a script named "checkupdates" was packaged with pacman, and did the same job.
So, for the past few weeks I've simply been running checkupdates every half hour on a cron job, and getting e-mails. This is usually fine, but sometimes I am not able to update immediately, and keep on getting e-mails every half an hour until I update, which is irritating.
In the script I used before checkupdates, it tested the output, and it would only send an e-mail if it was different to the last run. This meant that I only got e-mails when more updates are available, too.
I figured why not combine the two, and just write a tiny wrapper around checkupdates for use in cron jobs. All it does is check if the result was different to last time before printing anything out, saving you from getting e-mails continuously.
Hopefully someone else will find this useful. :-)
GitHub: https://github.com/cdown/checkupdates-cron
AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chec … -cron-git/
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