On Wed, Jul 13, 2005, Glennie Vignarajah wrote: > Hello, Hi, and sorry for the late reply.
> I just discovered rc-alert from debian-goodies. It is now in the devscripts package. > I think a crontab entry with something like 'rc-alert | grep -B 3 -A 1 > security' and the installation of this package as a mandatory package of > the basic debian installation may improve debian security. > Can this be done? This could be done. But I see many drawbacks to do that in a cron and by default: - it would need Internet access - it is not that useful to do that regularly I am really willing to close this bug or at least tag it wontfix, because it wouldn't be useful to create a cron entry (neither daily nor weekly nor monthly) with commented lines. What do you think? -- Mohammed Adnène Trojette
