(Sorry if you see this twice, but I never saw the first copy come through)
Hello, I'm announcing a program I've written for notifying the administrator about necessary security updates on a Debian box. It's called Debian Security Check (dsc.py). Often it's not obvious that a security advisory applies to a particular system. This is especially tricky with libraries (think fast: do any of your services depend on freetype?). It would be nice to ignore the flood of advisories that come in from debian-security-announce and only pay attention to the ones that actually require action on your part. dsc.py compares the set of currently upgradable packages with the security advisories RSS feed. Any matches are written to stdout along with a description of the issue. When run via cron this will send the warning to the administrator on a regular basis until the upgrade is done. A full description and link to the program is here: http://hupp.org/adam/weblog/2007/06/21/dscpy-automated-warnings-for-debian-security-updates/ -- Adam Hupp | http://hupp.org/adam/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
