Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 16:42:27 -0500 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), "Gentry A. Bieker"@obie.softweyr.com, gbieker@crown.net, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is there no info on the QPOPPER hack? Message-ID: <199807202142.QAA03436@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:21:20 MDT." <199807202021.OAA27380@obie.softweyr.com>
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> > >You don't expect all of your software to automaticly upgrade for you, do you? > > > > That's a darn good idea. Several Windows apps do this already. Why not > > the FreeBSD ports? > > He walked right into that one, didn't he? > > How difficult would it be to write a little daemon to check all of the > installed ports and packages for update availability? > > We should write it in modula-3, to make sure it doesn't have any > buffer overflow problems, though. Anyone wanna learn m3? ;^) You don't even have to start from scratch. Bruce Mah posted a Perl script last week that grabs the most recent INDEX file from ftp.freebsd.org, compares it to the info returned by 'pkg_info -aI' and prints out a report listing the status of all your installed ports. See http://www.ca.sandia.gov/~bmah/pub/pkg_version/pkg_version.pl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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