Re: dOCtoR MADneSs 2009-04-30 <user-7298952df550@xymon.invalid>
On my side I just changed my crontab :
apt-get update && touch /var/lib/apt/lists/lock
so if the update is succesfull, the mtime of /var/lib/apt/lists/lock is
changed, and the apt plugin reports green.
Ah, looks like using a lock file doesn't update the mtime. I didn't
notice until now as I'm using the "all-included" hack suggested in
apt.pl:
44 */4 * * * root ! apt-get -qq update 2>&1 | grep -q . && date -u > /var/lib/apt/update_success
Unfortunately apt-get update even returns 0 in case of some errors
(iirc unknown apt-keys etc.), so this command checks for an empty
output of apt-get -qq update instead.
(http://bugs.debian.org/526894)
Christoph
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