From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 14:29:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EB537B660 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 14:29:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao01.cox.net (lakemtao01.cox.net [68.1.17.244]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09F043FB1 for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 14:29:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@shadowcom.net) Received: from shadowcom.net ([68.100.212.237]) by lakemtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with SMTP id <20030503212925.MSQW8337.lakemtao01.cox.net@shadowcom.net> for ; Sat, 3 May 2003 17:29:25 -0400 Received: (qmail 22576 invoked by uid 500); 3 May 2003 21:29:55 -0000 Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 17:29:55 -0400 From: Brian Ledbetter To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20030503212954.GC21307@shadowcom.net> References: <20030503204938.GA3907@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030503204938.GA3907@gothmog.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic email about security notifications X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 21:29:27 -0000 Giorgos, That looks really awesome! I think you may be able to accomplish this with /usr/bin/fetch (which _is_ a part of base), though. If you'd like, I can send you a patch to accomplish this. :) I plan on putting this on all of my computers! Excellent work, sir! -B On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 11:49:38PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Hi all, > > A friend asked me a while ago on IRC if it was possible to receive > periodic email notifications with new security advisories. > > The following script for /etc/periodic/security implements exactly this > idea. It depends on lynx(1) to run, which isn't part of the base > system, so I'm not sure if it's ok to add it to the base system at all. > Here it is for anyone who might find it useful though: -- Brian Ledbetter http://www.shadowcom.net/brian/