[gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[JD Gray]

I'm running the below script on my gentoo servers to email me whenever
there are GLSA's affecting me. It works like a charm, but I have one
beef with it. Newlines are not preserved, so I get a lovely Wall Of
Text (tm) when ever it sends me the GLSA. I'm guessing this is because
of the way bash handles variables. Anyone have any insight on how to
correct this?

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all &> /dev/null
CHECK_RESULT="`/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all 2>&1`"

if [ "$CHECK_RESULT" != "" ]; then
  echo $CHECK_RESULT | /bin/mail -s "Frog glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com;
fi

Thanks in advance

-JD
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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[RijilV]

echo "$CHECK_RESULT" | /bin/mail -s "$HOSTNAME glsa-check" root@yourbox.com

FWIW $HOSTNAME should be present in the standard environmnet, makes
the script a bit more protable if you use it.  Also, is there a reason
you're running the command twice?  Moreover, if you set it up as a
cronjob you could just let cron take care of emailing you if there is
any output, and suspress the output if glsa-check doesn't print
anything..

.r'


2008/6/9 JD Gray <kahdgarxi@gmail.com>:
> I'm running the below script on my gentoo servers to email me whenever
> there are GLSA's affecting me. It works like a charm, but I have one
> beef with it. Newlines are not preserved, so I get a lovely Wall Of
> Text (tm) when ever it sends me the GLSA. I'm guessing this is because
> of the way bash handles variables. Anyone have any insight on how to
> correct this?
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all &> /dev/null
> CHECK_RESULT="`/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all 2>&1`"
>
> if [ "$CHECK_RESULT" != "" ]; then
>  echo $CHECK_RESULT | /bin/mail -s "Frog glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com;
> fi
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -JD
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>
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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[W.Kenworthy]

Put something like this in [f]crontab:

%daily,lavg(1.5,2,2) * 3-9 root rsync --recursive --links --safe-links
--perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after
--stats --timeout=180
rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/glsa/* /usr/portage/metadata/glsa/ ;glsa-check -n -l|grep "\[N";glsa-check -t all

glsa-check only does its magic on the current portage snapshot - the
above line rsyncs just the security stuff first.  Once done, get cron to
mail it as here.

BillK


On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:59 -0700, JD Gray wrote:
> I'm running the below script on my gentoo servers to email me whenever
> there are GLSA's affecting me. It works like a charm, but I have one
> beef with it. Newlines are not preserved, so I get a lovely Wall Of
> Text (tm) when ever it sends me the GLSA. I'm guessing this is because
> of the way bash handles variables. Anyone have any insight on how to
> correct this?
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all &> /dev/null
> CHECK_RESULT="`/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all 2>&1`"
> 
> if [ "$CHECK_RESULT" != "" ]; then
>   echo $CHECK_RESULT | /bin/mail -s "Frog glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com;
> fi
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> -JD
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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[Francisco Ares]

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Check this:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_Getting_GLSAs_by_Email

Hope it helps
Francisco

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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[Marius Mauch]

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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:52:01 -0300
"Francisco Ares" <frares@gmail.com> wrote:

> Check this:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_Getting_GLSAs_by_Email
> 

Or just use `glsa-check --mail affected` ;)

Marius

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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Marius Mauch wrote:

> Or just use `glsa-check --mail affected` ;)

Or use glcu.


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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[W.Kenworthy]

oops - pulled that from an old system - at the end just use:

";glsa-check -vt all"

The first run with grep is redundant - possibly worked with the first
glsa-check versions ...

BillK



On Tue, 20 08-06-10 at 11:39 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> Put something like this in [f]crontab:
> 
> %daily,lavg(1.5,2,2) * 3-9 root rsync --recursive --links --safe-links
> --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after
> --stats --timeout=180
> rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/metadata/glsa/* /usr/portage/metadata/glsa/ ;glsa-check -n -l|grep "\[N";glsa-check -t all
> 
> glsa-check only does its magic on the current portage snapshot - the
> above line rsyncs just the security stuff first.  Once done, get cron to
> mail it as here.
> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:59 -0700, JD Gray wrote:
> > I'm running the below script on my gentoo servers to email me whenever
> > there are GLSA's affecting me. It works like a charm, but I have one
> > beef with it. Newlines are not preserved, so I get a lovely Wall Of
> > Text (tm) when ever it sends me the GLSA. I'm guessing this is because
> > of the way bash handles variables. Anyone have any insight on how to
> > correct this?
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all &> /dev/null
> > CHECK_RESULT="`/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all 2>&1`"
> > 
> > if [ "$CHECK_RESULT" != "" ]; then
> >   echo $CHECK_RESULT | /bin/mail -s "Frog glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com;
> > fi
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > 
> > -JD
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Re: [gentoo-server] Scripting fun

[Korthrun]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 7:59 PM, JD Gray <kahdgarxi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running the below script on my gentoo servers to email me whenever
> there are GLSA's affecting me. It works like a charm, but I have one
> beef with it. Newlines are not preserved, so I get a lovely Wall Of
> Text (tm) when ever it sends me the GLSA. I'm guessing this is because
> of the way bash handles variables. Anyone have any insight on how to
> correct this?
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> /usr/bin/glsa-check -t all &> /dev/null
> CHECK_RESULT="`/usr/bin/glsa-check -t all 2>&1`"
>
> if [ "$CHECK_RESULT" != "" ]; then
>  echo $CHECK_RESULT | /bin/mail -s "Frog glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com;
> fi
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -JD
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>
>
echo $CHECK_RESULT | sed -e 's/\n/\r\n/' | /bin/mail -s "Frog
glsa-check" kahdgarxi@gmail.com

Might make that work how you'd expect.


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