Re: Keeping any up-to-date?

[Ciaran.Deignan () BULL NET (Ciaran Deignan)]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Randolf-Heiko Skerka wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 09:46:02AM +0000, John RIddoch wrote:
> > To carry on the thread of keeping Solaris patched, I wrote a script to
> > automatically update a systems patches overnight via cron.
>
> Great work. But are things like that available for other OSes (I´m thinking
> of AIX, HP-UX, CISCO IOS[?] and so on)?

For AIX, Bull has a check tool that verifies that PTFs corresponding to
security problems have been installed. The tool is called "bull_check",
and is available from www-frec.bull.com (click on "download").

By default it checks for Year2000 PTFs, give it the option "security"
to check for security things.

I have a script to automatically download the missing PTFs from
the Bull PTF server, if anybody's interested.

Bye
Ciaran


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