FreeBSD source auto patcher script

[Daniel Spielman]

Sounds like my job, will it monitor 24/7 /var/log/messages too ? :)

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Michael Vince wrote:

> Hi all
> I thought I would let you people know of a script that I coded that
> facilitates security patch updating on FreeBSD. When I wrote it I
> decided to called it Quickpatch for some reason even though because its
> source based its not necessarily the least bit quick at all :) I had
> kept it for my self for a while but I was recently provoked to release
> it as it could do greater good being out there on the net, because its
> in Perl its quite hackable for custom needs.
>
> http://www.roq.com/projects/quickpatch/
>
> It has the ability to do a range of different update tasks. These
> features include the ability to easily verify (using PGP) any and all
> advisories, easy setup and use of CVSUP for source and ports tree
> updates. Ability to extract all the useful data out of the official
> FreeBSD security advisories, such as necessary patch commands, security
> advisory topic, exact hours since the patch was made/released, then can
> create ready to run patch files or display/email a full report of that
> information. Also, it can optionally apply the patch files with no
> attendance. Because its highly cronable you can schedule in a 'patch
> mode' kernel recompile and reboot at early morning hours to minimize
> down time inconvenience to others.
>
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