Victor Sudakov wrote: > > There is something about debsecan I don't understand, can you please clarify for me? After reading your replies and the Debian security advisories, I made up my mind that I probably just want to now if new versions of packages are available in the repos. Perhaps it's the best thing I can do about vulnerabilities. So I wrote the following UserParameter for the Zabbix agent, and I think I've found it useful already: # Number of upgradable packages UserParameter=packages.upgradeable,if [ -x /usr/bin/apt-get ] ; then /usr/bin/apt-get upgrade -s | grep -c '^Inst' ; elif [ -x /usr/bin/yum ] ; then /usr/bin/yum check-update | grep -c 'updates$'; else echo "1" ; fi It does not require any extra utilities to estimate the number of upgradeable packages. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
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