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