if you are using up2date for your updates, you can run this from the
command line and if there are updates it will get them, if there are no
updates nothing exciting will happen. same with apt-get and autorpm.
Alexander Rau (private) wrote:
When I am remotely logged into a system i.e. by ssh how can I tell whether
the system is completely up to date with all of the important security
patches, etc?