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Re: help with an audit-packages shell script



Salut, Greg,

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:42:22 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   My suggestion would be to have the following /etc/security.local:
> 
> It would be nice if audit-packages had a -m switch that caused it to:
> 
>   always exit with status 0 unless sending mail failed
> 
>   send mail if downloading fails or if there are vulnerable packages
> 
> Then one could just put audit-packages -m in cron and have the right
> thing happen, more or less.
> 
> Also, it would be cool to have a nagios plugin to check audit-packages
> freshness/status.

I would suggest that /etc/security.local is the right place for
precisely that. I don't see the point in teaching audit-packages to
send mail.
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                                Tonnerre

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