[Sysadmin] tempest security updates

David Kaufman david at gigawatt.com
Tue Nov 8 00:53:16 CST 2005


I broke all the mailing lists tonight.

At least I accomplished something... ast night was a complete bust :-)

I broke them trying to make my local account on tempest forward cron 
output to this list on a daily basis.

apt-get -qsV upgrade \
    | grep -E '^   ' \
    | /var/qmail/bin/mailsubj "tempest: pending security updates" \
    sysadmin at lists.evolt.org

an exceedingly clever one-liner I thought, but is alas, better forwarded 
by hand:


From: root at tempest.evolt.org
Subject: tempest: pending security updates

   apache (1.3.33-6 => 1.3.33-6sarge1)
   apache-common (1.3.33-6 => 1.3.33-6sarge1)
   apache-utils (1.3.33-6 => 1.3.33-6sarge1)
   apache2-utils (2.0.54-4 => 2.0.54-5)
   bsdutils (2.12p-4 => 2.12p-4sarge1)
   courier-authdaemon (0.47-4sarge1 => 0.47-4sarge3)
   courier-base (0.47-4sarge1 => 0.47-4sarge3)
   courier-imap (3.0.8-4sarge1 => 3.0.8-4sarge3)
   courier-imap-ssl (3.0.8-4sarge1 => 3.0.8-4sarge3)
   courier-ssl (0.47-4sarge1 => 0.47-4sarge3)
   cpio (2.5-1.2 => 2.5-1.3)
   libapr0 (2.0.54-4 => 2.0.54-5)
   libc-client2002edebian (2002edebian1-11 => 2002edebian1-11sarge1)
   libice6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libmysqlclient12 (4.0.24-10 => 4.0.24-10sarge1)
   libpcre3 (4.5-1.2 => 4.5-1.2sarge1)
   libsm6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libssl-dev (0.9.7e-3 => 0.9.7e-3sarge1)
   libssl0.9.6 (0.9.6m-1 => 0.9.6m-1sarge1)
   libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7e-3 => 0.9.7e-3sarge1)
   libx11-6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxaw7 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxext6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxft1 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxi6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxmu6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxmuu1 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxp6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxpm4 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxrandr2 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxt6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxtrap6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   libxtst6 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   lynx (2.8.5-2 => 2.8.5-2sarge1)
   mlock (2002edebian1-11 => 2002edebian1-11sarge1)
   mount (2.12-4 => 2.12p-4sarge1)
   mysql-client (4.0.24-10 => 4.0.24-10sarge1)
   mysql-common (4.0.24-10 => 4.0.24-10sarge1)
   mysql-server (4.0.24-10 => 4.0.24-10sarge1)
   ntpdate (4.2.0a+stable-2 => 4.2.0a+stable-2sarge1)
   openssl (0.9.7e-3 => 0.9.7e-3sarge1)
   phpmyadmin (2.6.2-3 => 2.6.2-3sarge1)
   python2.1 (2.1.3dfsg-1 => 2.1.3dfsg-1sarge1)
   python2.1-dev (2.1.3dfsg-1 => 2.1.3dfsg-1sarge1)
   python2.2 (2.2.3dfsg-2 => 2.2.3dfsg-2sarge1)
   python2.3 (2.3.5-3 => 2.3.5-3sarge1)
   python2.3-dev (2.3.5-3 => 2.3.5-3sarge1)
   sudo (1.6.8p7-1.1sarge1 => 1.6.8p7-1.2)
   util-linux (2.12p-4 => 2.12p-4sarge1)
   util-linux-locales (2.12p-4 => 2.12p-4sarge1)
   xfree86-common (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   xlibs (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)
   xlibs-data (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 => 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1)

These are all security updates, so we should probably apply them.






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