As someone new to OpenBSD and UNIX in general (reading a lot and trying to learn) I signed up for the security list due to the description of the list thinking I would be covered if something serious were to come up. I only check errata about every week or so and as of right now I'm not even sure how to apply the reliability patches, but I am trying to learn without causing too much noise, only generally skimming to find some golden nuggets that will help me with learning (admittedly, most is over my head and I don't attempt much of what I read, but it does help me).
By having the list seemingly available, it's possible new people such as myself are missing announcements and after checking the errata for 4.4 (which I purchased as soon as it was avail along with 3 or 4 prior versions which I only installed to test but gladly support this effort albeit in a small way) lets me know that I am indeed missing things. So I am curious, what IS the best way to stay up to date? Is manually checking the errata page every day really correct (seems like there would be an automated solutuion such as the lynx dump aforementioned)? It seems to me that even if there is a security flaw in OpenBSD most of them (from reading prior patches) would be exceedingly hard to exploit anyway so maybe it's not as big of a deal as, say, Windows B.S. (which is exactly the reason I am learning something else). If people really DO want the list, I would have no problem checking it once a day and posting any relevant updates as they appear on errata. Cheers, Brian >From http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html "security-announce Security announcements. This low volume list receives OpenBSD security advisories and pointers to security patches as they become available."
