Periodic email about security notifications

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-05-04 11:31, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Sat, May 03, 2003 at 11:49:38PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A friend asked me a while ago on IRC if it was possible to receive
>> periodic email notifications with new security advisories.
>>
>> The following script for /etc/periodic/security implements exactly this
>> idea.  It depends on lynx(1) to run, which isn't part of the base
>> system, so I'm not sure if it's ok to add it to the base system at all.
>> Here it is for anyone who might find it useful though:
>
> Hey, that's great, Giorgos!
> But how come you are not using www/en/security/advisories.xml ?

The XML file might not be available locally, and it isn't available
online unless I do funny stuff with cvsweb.  I chose FTP urls, because
they would be friendlier stuff for periodic.conf files of the admins who
want to use this than the cvsweb equivalent:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/www/en/security/advisories.xml?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain

I can always change the script to parse that file instead if necessary.