Re: FreeBSD source auto patcher script

From: Daniel Spielman (dan_at_dreadful.org)
Date: 03/04/04

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    Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 00:41:20 -0800 (PST)
To: Michael Vince <michael@roq.com>

    Sounds like my job, will it monitor 24/7 /var/log/messages too ? :)

    On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Michael Vince wrote:

    > Hi all
    > I thought I would let you people know of a script that I coded that
    > facilitates security patch updating on FreeBSD. When I wrote it I
    > decided to called it Quickpatch for some reason even though because its
    > source based its not necessarily the least bit quick at all :) I had
    > kept it for my self for a while but I was recently provoked to release
    > it as it could do greater good being out there on the net, because its
    > in Perl its quite hackable for custom needs.
    >
    > http://www.roq.com/projects/quickpatch/
    >
    > It has the ability to do a range of different update tasks. These
    > features include the ability to easily verify (using PGP) any and all
    > advisories, easy setup and use of CVSUP for source and ports tree
    > updates. Ability to extract all the useful data out of the official
    > FreeBSD security advisories, such as necessary patch commands, security
    > advisory topic, exact hours since the patch was made/released, then can
    > create ready to run patch files or display/email a full report of that
    > information. Also, it can optionally apply the patch files with no
    > attendance. Because its highly cronable you can schedule in a 'patch
    > mode' kernel recompile and reboot at early morning hours to minimize
    > down time inconvenience to others.
    >
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