Re: script for security update notification
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 20:48, Teun Vink wrote:
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:41:46AM -0400, Nathan Valentine wrote:
> >
> > > I'm thinking of writing a script but I am hoping that someone else has
> > > beaten me to the punch. Perhaps someone has seen something that will do
> > > this:
> > >
> > > 1) Check the Debian security announcement list.
> > > 2) Compare new announcements to the local package database.
> > > 3) If vulnerable packages installed, send an 'I need updated' email to
> > > an address defined by the SysAdmin.
> > >
> > > Anyone ever seen such a beast? I've searched the archives of this list
> > > and not found any reference to anything along these lines.
> >
> > If an announcement has been made, then there is a fixed package available,
> > and (assuming you have the relevant sources.list entry) it will be
> > automatically made available to apt, and all you need is a tool like
> > apt-show-versions (or even apt-get) to automatically retrieve a list of
> > packages for which updates exist.
> >
> >
>
> This can be simply done with the following statement:
>
> apt-get -qq update && apt-get -dqq upgrade && apt-get -sqq upgrade
>
> (assuming your machine is 24/7 connected to the internet and you have
> securiy.debian.org in your /etc/apt/sources.list)
>
> This will update your packages list, and then simulate an
> upgrade. Schedule it using a cron job, and you will only receive mail if
> new packages are available. I use this to maintain a network of about 50
> Debian servers (potato and woody).
Very nice, but anyway it will 'only' notify you via mail
about new packages, so in the end it's up too you executing
apt-get upgrade, right ?
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Teun
>
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