Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 01:18:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Periodic email about security notifications Message-ID: <20030504221814.GB75721@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20030504163154.GA1502@madman.celabo.org> References: <20030503204938.GA3907@gothmog.gr> <20030504163154.GA1502@madman.celabo.org>
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On 2003-05-04 11:31, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> 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.
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