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To make it easy I have added these 2 lines to my crontab |
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10 2 * * * /usr/bin/emerge --sync 2> /dev/null |
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> /root/tmp/daily-emerge-sync.txt |
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50 2 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -ln 2> /dev/null | grep ' \[N\]' |
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Then every morning I get an email if there are packages with vulnerabilities. |
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I can decide manually the priority. Because I dont want apache updating |
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itself in the middle of the night... I do it manually, from my emailed list. |
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On Tuesday 06 September 2005 02:53 pm, Jeremy Brake wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> Is there anything in Portage which will allow me to view security |
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> updates, seperate from general version updates? |
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> At the moment i have a 5am cron job which runs "emerge --sync && emerge |
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> -upvD world" , and i just glance at it as soon as I i sit down at my pc |
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> for the day. |
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> The problem here is that I cant tell if updates (eg, at the moment it |
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> wants to update openssh and apache2) are security patches, or just |
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> general version upgrades. |
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> I know i can use "system" instead of "world" and omit the -D option, but |
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> thats not targeting my issue exactly. Is there a way to see which |
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> updates are security patches, without having to manually trawl through |
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> webpages and changelogs? |
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> Jeremy |
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