From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 00:22:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA25438 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 00:22:40 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA25432 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 00:22:39 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA21068; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 00:22:27 -0800 To: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP must die, CTM for president !! In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Jan 95 23:55:46 PST." <199502010755.XAA19507@ref.tfs.com> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1995 00:22:26 -0800 Message-ID: <21066.791626946@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk P.S. Is it currently possible to set someone up with a special CTM alias in their /etc/aliases that will allow freefall to send them patches which get filed and applied automatically? That way, to register for CTM updates a user just says "Sure, I'm willing" and it sends off a subscription request to the nearest CTM site for doing it by mail, or sets up some sort of mirror to grab it via ftp, and adds the alias so that it's all automatic after that. The user gets daily/weekly/monthly/whatever reports from CTM when it changes things and they can do with those whatever they wish. THAT would be very cool. Totally automated and unattended. We update people by sending email to a special address on their machine. I like it. We might need to go to PGP authentication at some point so that only WE can generate official patches, but that's down the road. Jordan