Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:25:55 -0500 From: "Mark Livingstone" <mlivingstone@ottawa.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: SUGGESTION! please comment. Message-ID: <001101c0962d$75dfcd70$0200a8c0@vvk>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] it is SOOO hard to keep up with security updates and stuff.. if i haven't acidentally read mailing list yesterday (and i read it maybe once in a month - 90% of users aren't subscribed at all) i wouldn't have known about PROFTPD bugs. perhaps someone could automate the process.. each night those who are subscribed to, say, updates@freebsd.org would receive a file called "dailyupdate" that would contain information with new updates and stuff and will be used by a script to check for all versions of installed programs. In case an older version is installed and there is a bug in it - it would mail root notifying him of that. it would REALLY, REALLY help out a lot of people out there. not that i am lazy to read mailing lists, but it's just impossible to keep up with a number of them and other information eaten daily. don't flame me if i sound unreasonable ;) [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=koi8-r"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it is SOOO hard to keep up with security updates and stuff.. if i haven't acidentally read mailing list yesterday (and i read it maybe once in a month - 90% of users aren't subscribed at all) i wouldn't have known about PROFTPD bugs. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>perhaps someone could automate the process.. each night those who are subscribed to, say, <A href="mailto:updates@freebsd.org">updates@freebsd.org</A> would receive a file called "dailyupdate" that would contain information with new updates and stuff and will be used by a script to check for all versions of installed programs. In case an older version is installed and there is a bug in it - it would mail root notifying him of that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>it would REALLY, REALLY help out a lot of people out there. not that i am lazy to read mailing lists, but it's just impossible to keep up with a number of them and other information eaten daily. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>don't flame me if i sound unreasonable ;)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
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