weitzner/system-automation

A repository to hold various daemons to keep your system up to date

System Automation

A repository to hold various daemons to keep your OS X system up to date. If updates are available, you'l receive an email informing you of what to do.

Credits

• update_macports.sh borrows (heavily) from dtrsan's port-update.sh (https://github.com/dtrsan/scrapbook/blob/master/bin/port-update.sh)

Instructions

• Move update_macports.sh and send_email.py to the desired location (e.g. ~/bin)
  • Configure send_email.py for your own email address and password. If you're using gmail (or any other email provider that supports two-factor authentication), I recommend using an application-specifc password because it has to be stored in plain text.
  • Configure update_macports.sh to point to send_mail.py and to your installation of MacPorts
• Move weitzner.UpdateMacPorts.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons and feel free to rename the identifier cp weitzner.UpdateMacPorts.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/$USER.UpdateMacPorts.plist
  • Update /Library/LaunchDaemons/$USER.UpdateMacPorts.plist to point to the path where update_macports.sh is located and (optionally) change the label your liking.
• Add the daemon to launchd: sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/$USER.UpdateMacPorts.plist