Periodic email about security notifications

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2003-05-04 12:04, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at bellavista.cz> wrote:
># keramida at ceid.upatras.gr / 2003-05-03 23:49:38 +0300:
>> 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.
>
>     besides being cool, what advantages has this over subscribing to the
>     freebsd-announce mlist? :)

Probably none.  This is why I didn't try to get this committed and just
posted it on a list somewhere.  I got a few improvements in private
email and will probably just add this to a web page somewhere with the
new changes that make it depend on ftp(1) instead of lynx(1) (from the
ports collection).

The only good thing I can think is that letting a script automatically
check the list of advisories somewhere is something that you can't
forget to do, and being notified with a simple URL to check instead of a
multi-page mail message from security-announce was what my friend had
originally asked for :)