[Gllug] debian security updates

[Craig Millar]

I've been getting concerned of late that the debian boxen that I look after
at work are not getting enough regular maintenance, especially with regards
to security updates. I can't seem to find any daemon or tool that will check
this for me and alert me to new available updates - something like SuSE
Watcher which checks theses things periodically.

Som I have a separate sources list which contains simply this debian security
resource:
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free

Then I added this to cron weekly as such:

(apt-get -o Dir::Etc::sourceList=/etc/apt/security.list update && apt-get -o
Dir::Etc::sourceList=/etc/apt/security.list -dy dist-upgrade) | mail -s
"`hostname` update" me at craigmillar.org > /dev/null 2>&1

Is this a sensible way to go about this? I should now be getting mailed
weekly about what updated packages from the security repository have been
downloaded and I can review and install them.

Are their better ways to do this? Any tools that handle this task?

Thanks
Craig
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