From owner-freebsd-security Sat Dec 16 22:34:16 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 22:34:14 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from roble.com (mx0.roble.com [206.40.34.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DFE37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marquis@localhost) by roble.com with ESMTP id eBH6Y9F12654 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:34:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:34:07 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > My question is, is there a util yet that in theory (maybe if so, or if > someone writes one would work differently than what I'm imagining) queries a > central database with all the security advisories, checks the local system > for comparisons and vulnerabilities against that database and reports to the > user who ran the util. Before reinventing the wheel interested developers might check the reference implementation, Sun's Patchdiag: http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/private-cgi/show.pl?target=resources/patchdiag (NOTE: this URL does require a SunSolve account) -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message