[Gllug] debian security updates

[mimo]

Sounds complicated. Why not just subscribe to 
Debian Security Announcements <debian-security-announce at lists.debian.org>
and see http://www.debian.org/security/faq

I'd recommend against automatically updating vulnerable packages. It always 
breaks while you go on leave.. ;)

mimo
On Friday 15 July 2005 12:47, Craig Millar wrote:
> 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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