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Seather
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Joined: 23 May 2003
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Location: South Africa
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 Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 12:11 am Post subject: Daily glsa-check without updating the whole portage tree |
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Hi there,
I'd like to have glsa-check run daily and email me a list of ports that's being affected by any security issues.
I have managed to do this, and it currently works like this:
Every day, cron runs an `emerge sync' to update the ports tree.
Then I have this perl script running right after that:
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/perl -w
@output = `glsa-check -t all 2> /dev/null`;
$count = 1;
$amount_of_security_issues = 0;
if ($output[1]) {
while ($output[$count]) {
$amount_of_security_issues++;
$count++;
}
printf "There are currently $amount_of_security_issues GLSA issues that needs to be sorted out!\n";
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Does anyone have a more elegant way of doing this (aside from my script's coding)? My biggest problem here is the amount of bandwidth it is taking per day!
Now, I had an idea, but not 100% sure if it will work. Does glsa-check get everything from /usr/portage/metadata/glsa ?
Because if so, I can have emerge sync ignore everything in /usr/portage except metadata/glsa. Will that do? Anyone know? |
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hanj
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Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Posts: 1500
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I'd like to have glsa-check run daily and email me a list of ports that's being affected by any security issues. |
I just run this...
| Code: | | /usr/bin/glsa-check -l | grep '\[N\]' |
With this in cron, I'll get a nightly email of affected packages.
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30 1 * * * /usr/bin/glsa-check -l | grep '\[N\]' |
| Quote: | | Now, I had an idea, but not 100% sure if it will work. Does glsa-check get everything from /usr/portage/metadata/glsa ? |
Not sure.
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Does anyone have a more elegant way of doing this (aside from my script's coding)? My biggest problem here is the amount of bandwidth it is taking per day! |
I'm guessing you're talking about the large output from emerge sync in your email?
This is my cron for emerge sync and emerge world. I just send the output of emerge sync to dev/null, and send the output of emerge world in an email
| Code: | 0 3 * * * /usr/bin/emerge sync > /dev/null 2>&1
30 3 * * * /usr/bin/emerge -uvDpl world |
HTH
hanji |
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