From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jul 20 14:43:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21062 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tick.ssec.wisc.edu (tick.ssec.wisc.edu [144.92.108.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21047 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglo@tick.ssec.wisc.edu) Received: from tick.ssec.wisc.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tick.ssec.wisc.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03436; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:42:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Glowacki Message-Id: <199807202142.QAA03436@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), "Gentry A. Bieker"@obie.softweyr.com, gbieker@crown.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:21:20 MDT." <199807202021.OAA27380@obie.softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:42:27 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > >You don't expect all of your software to automaticly upgrade for you, do you? > > > > That's a darn good idea. Several Windows apps do this already. Why not > > the FreeBSD ports? > > He walked right into that one, didn't he? > > How difficult would it be to write a little daemon to check all of the > installed ports and packages for update availability? > > We should write it in modula-3, to make sure it doesn't have any > buffer overflow problems, though. Anyone wanna learn m3? ;^) You don't even have to start from scratch. Bruce Mah posted a Perl script last week that grabs the most recent INDEX file from ftp.freebsd.org, compares it to the info returned by 'pkg_info -aI' and prints out a report listing the status of all your installed ports. See http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/pub/pkg_version/pkg_version.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message