Project discontinued! (its Craft 2...)

But if you need an easy way to retrieve updates, here's a cronjob command:

0 8 * * 1-5 printf "From: My Website <my-website@example.com>\nTo: Me <me@example.com>\nSubject: Available Craft Updates\n$(~/my-project/site/craft update/info)" | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t

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Update Notifier plugin for Craft CMS

a craft cms plugin that checks for updates in craft core and installed plugins and sends out notifications (via email)

Installation

To install Update Notifier, follow these steps:

1. Download & unzip the file and place the craft-updatenotifier directory into your craft/plugins directory as updatenotifier.
2. -OR- do a git clone https://github.com/fork/craft-updatenotifier.git directly into your craft/plugins folder and rename it to updatenotifier. You can then update it with git pull
3. Install plugin in the Craft Control Panel under Settings > Plugins
4. The plugin folder should be named updatenotifier for Craft to see it.

Configuring Update Notifier

1. Setup your notification email adresses as a comma separated list in the plugin settings.
2. Setup a cronjob in the crontab to run the update check command (for example daily). use which php to find your php executable path.

0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/my-site/craft/app/etc/console/yiic updatenotifier check

if you have a custom config path (which includes the necessary license.key file for the update check) you can tell yiic:

0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php /var/www/my-site/craft/app/etc/console/yiic --configPath=/var/www/my-site/craft/config/custom-dir/ updatenotifier check

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