Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:41:31 -0800 (PST) From: jrz <jrz@cnmnetwork.com> To: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Update Tool.. Message-ID: <20001216002828.519FB37B400@hub.freebsd.org>
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>> My question is, is there a util yet that in theory (maybe if so, or if >> someone writes one would work differently than what I'm imagining) queries a >> central database with all the security advisories, checks the local system >> for comparisons and vulnerabilities against that database and reports to the >> user who ran the util. >> >> ie, sacheck -H sa-host.freebsd.org would be fairly easy to write a shell or perl script that checks for current advisories and prints it out in pretty format. -jrz --- Jacob Zehnder | Systems Engineer CNM Network | http://www.cnmnetwork.com business: jrz@cnmnetwork.com other: jrz@rackmount.org --- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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