From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 19:18:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C54A16A416 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D04C43D67 for ; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 19:18:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.84]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J5C00LCAAWHIT20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:17:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J5C00MM5AWHRZD0@pd4mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:17:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J5C00LRNAWH9Y52@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:17:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 10092 invoked from network); Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:16:57 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:16:57 +0000 Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:16:57 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <4502D5C0.2070902@chrismaness.com> To: Chris Maness Message-id: <45031329.5060204@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <4502D5C0.2070902@chrismaness.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic Script for /usr/src security updates X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:18:54 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > Is there an application that can be triggered by security advisory > e-mails, or the like, to automatically do cvsup and rebuild the system? > I know that would probably be a little difficult with the mergemaster > command. I know that someone has written a script which parses security advisories; but it sounds to me like you're really looking for FreeBSD Update. Colin Percival