Apticron
Apticron es una de esas herramientas que agradecemos los sysadmins que tenemos máquinas Debian.
Se trata de un pequeño script que comprueba las novedades en cuanto a actualizaciones de software instalado se refiere y envía un correo/informe con la lista de updates.
Instalarlo es tan simple como hacer un apt-get install apticron, configurar la cuenta de correo a la que van a llegar los informes también es trivial:
$ nano -w /etc/apticron/apticton.conf
EMAIL=\"tu@correo.com\"
apticron report [Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:42:01 -0800]
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apticron has detected that some packages need upgrading on:
faustus.example.com
[ 1.2.3.4 ]
The following packages are currently pending an upgrade:
xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3
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Package Details:
Reading changelogs...
--- Changes for xfree86 (xfree86-common libice6 libsm6 xlibs-data libx11-6 libxext6 libxpm4) ---
xfree86 (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3) stable-security; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer update by the Security Team:
Fixes several vulnerabilities reported by iDefense
(CVE-2006-6101, CVE-2006-6102, CVE-2006-6103)
-- Moritz Muehlenhoff Sun, 7 Jan 2007 13:31:35 +0000
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You can perform the upgrade by issuing the command:
apt-get dist-upgrade
as root on faustus.example.com
It is recommended that you simulate the upgrade first to confirm that
the actions that would be taken are reasonable. The upgrade may be
simulated by issuing the command:
apt-get -s dist-upgrade
-- apticron