From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 15:18:19 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 6663A37B401; Sun, 4 May 2003 15:18:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 247494406E; Sun, 4 May 2003 15:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a009.otenet.gr [212.205.215.9]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h44MIEmX017338; Mon, 5 May 2003 01:18:15 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h44MIE0X075939; Mon, 5 May 2003 01:18:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h44MIELx075938; Mon, 5 May 2003 01:18:14 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 01:18:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030504221814.GB75721@gothmog.gr> References: <20030503204938.GA3907@gothmog.gr> <20030504163154.GA1502@madman.celabo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030504163154.GA1502@madman.celabo.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: Sun, 04 May 2003 22:18:19 -0000 On 2003-05-04 11:31, "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: >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: > > Hey, that's great, Giorgos! > But how come you are not using www/en/security/advisories.xml ? The XML file might not be available locally, and it isn't available online unless I do funny stuff with cvsweb. I chose FTP urls, because they would be friendlier stuff for periodic.conf files of the admins who want to use this than the cvsweb equivalent: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/security/advisories.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain I can always change the script to parse that file instead if necessary.