From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 05:54:02 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 7873137B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:54:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A6943FBF for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 05:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a073.otenet.gr [212.205.215.73]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h44CrwmX013267 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 15:53:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h44Crv0X001535 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 15:53:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h44CrvQ7001534 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 May 2003 15:53:57 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 15:53:57 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030504125357.GB699@gothmog.gr> References: <20030503204938.GA3907@gothmog.gr> <20030504100447.GU12792@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030504100447.GU12792@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> 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 12:54:02 -0000 On 2003-05-04 12:04, Roman Neuhauser wrote: ># keramida@ceid.upatras.gr / 2003-05-03 23:49:38 +0300: >> 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. > > besides being cool, what advantages has this over subscribing to the > freebsd-announce mlist? :) Probably none. This is why I didn't try to get this committed and just posted it on a list somewhere. I got a few improvements in private email and will probably just add this to a web page somewhere with the new changes that make it depend on ftp(1) instead of lynx(1) (from the ports collection). The only good thing I can think is that letting a script automatically check the list of advisories somewhere is something that you can't forget to do, and being notified with a simple URL to check instead of a multi-page mail message from security-announce was what my friend had originally asked for :)