From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EDNee-0004MU-6n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:45:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j88EeH1m000296; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:40:17 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j88EeGJt031849 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:40:17 GMT Received: (qmail 87632 invoked by uid 0); 8 Sep 2005 14:43:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Sep 2005 14:43:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:39:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates In-Reply-To: <431E0FDA.70805@lunatic.net.nz> Message-ID: References: <431CDE1C.1040809@catprosystems.com> <431CE225.6000201@munat.com> <2663.64.81.81.51.1125986925.squirrel@webemail.catprosystems.net> <431DC6B8.6030608@munat.com> <431E0FDA.70805@lunatic.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 2bd8d2b3-9dda-4d3c-a271-a23048551021 X-Archives-Hash: 44a8f542dd6bbbe153a95a76760d2556 On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jeremy Brake wrote: > Is there anything in Portage which will allow me to view security > updates, seperate from general version updates? > At the moment i have a 5am cron job which runs "emerge --sync && emerge > -upvD world" , and i just glance at it as soon as I i sit down at my pc > for the day. > The problem here is that I cant tell if updates (eg, at the moment it > wants to update openssh and apache2) are security patches, or just > general version upgrades. Do a Google for "Gentoo glcu" - its a script that does all the updates and security checks for you. I have it run from cron on all my servers. -- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list