Imagine you have several GNU/Linux boxes running, which you all want to keep up to date using the package manager on the boxes (apt, rug, yum). Without any decent solution, you have to manage this issue by hand. That means, logging in to all off the boxes, update the available packages (f.e. by running apt-get update) and checking for updates and installing them, on the right time without interfering the services running on the box.
That quite sucks, and apt-dater is the solution. With apt-dater, you manage all your GNU/Linux boxes from one management box:
Quite rocking, eh. Configuration is also quite simple, just make sure you have created a apt-dater user on the host(s) you wish to manage and add that user as a sudo’er. Gain SSH access, distribute the public key of the management host to all your “client” hosts en off you go.
