Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cronning Update Jobs

From: Remko Lodder (remko_at_elvandar.org)
Date: 03/28/04

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    Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 23:11:56 +0200

    Hi nico,

    Nico Golde wrote:
    > Hallo Luke,
    >
    > * Luke Norman <luke@normanonline.co.uk> [2004-03-27 17:28]:
    > [...]
    >
    >>My question is this - are there any security risks to adding this
    >>command to a cron job, and having it execute say, once every 12 hours.
    >>Any and all input appreciated
    >
    >
    > is it a risk if you do it manually? see? ;-)
    > regards nico
    => at least with a manual run you can see what happends, an automated
    update goes without visual see-ing of what happends... So in that way
    automated updates are a bigger risk in security then manual runs.

    HTH,

    Kind regards,

    Remko Lodder
    Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
    www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the
    hackerscene

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