[Sysadmin] tempest security updates

[Mike King]

On 08/11/2005 06:53, David Kaufman wrote:
> 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:

Ah well. It's all better, now  :)

> From: root at tempest.evolt.org
> Subject: tempest: pending security updates
> 
   ---- 8< -- snip 1 million updates -- >8 ----
 >

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

Yeah. Do we need some more structure to this admin business?
Someone taking care of particular elements of admin, on a day to day 
basis? (system updates, drupal updates, etc)

Anyway, I say apply those patches!
mk