On Sun July 1 2007 11:22:40 pm Adam Hupp wrote: > (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/
Nice work, thanks for that. I must look into that.. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
