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On Wednesday 14 March 2007 21:31, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> 1. As far as I'm concerned, the one thing that absolutely positively |
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> should have happened now but hasn't is some scheme where you have |
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> something like Red Hat/Fedora's "green checkmark/red bang" indicator on |
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> your desk, indicating whether your system is up to date, and a |
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> classification of the available updates into security, bug fixes and |
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> enhancements. I don't ever remember how long Red Hat has had that, and I |
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> know Debian and the other apt-based package managers have something |
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> similar, even if it's just a command-line level. On Gentoo, even with |
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> the latest Portage, I do "emerge --sync; emerge -puvDN world" and just |
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> get a list. There's no way to tell which of those are must-haves for |
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> security without reading changelogs. |
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Modify and add this to your crontab: |
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30 6 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -d affected 2>&1 | mail -s "`hostname -f`: |
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glsa-check" znmeb@×××××××.net |
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Note it should all be on one line. |
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HTH |
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Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (Jaervosz) |
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