Who was the mental genius

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 06 Jun 2014, at 10:22, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/6/2014 10:18, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Sure, but really a couple of lines to warn people and wave them towards
>> next steps is probably advisable next time.
> 
> Maybe we can alter the "uname -a" string to show the EOL so that every
> time the machine boots you see it on top of the MOTD.
> 
> :)
> 
> Of course, that won't help for the turn-on-and-forget servers with
> uptime measured in years...
> 
> As a serious questions, where should such a "you have X months/days
> remaining before server is EOL, update before then" messages pop up?
> weekly cron messages sent to root?

periodic/security/450-check_eol ?(info if < 90 days left, error if past eol)



> 
> John
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