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version 1.3, 2007/10/09 19:19:14

version 1.4, 2008/01/13 22:31:25

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You may wish to have the vulnerabilities file downloaded daily so that

it remains current. This may be done by adding an appropriate entry

to a users crontab(5) entry. For example the entry

to a user's crontab(5) entry. For example the entry

# download vulnerabilities file

0 3 * * * ${PREFIX}/sbin/download-vulnerability-list >/dev/null 2>&1

Line 19 if [ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/audit-packages ];

${PREFIX}/sbin/audit-packages

Alternatively this can also be acomplished by adding an entry to a users

Alternatively this can also be acomplished by adding an entry to a user's

crontab(5) file. e.g.:

# run audit-packages

0 3 * * * ${PREFIX}/sbin/audit-packages

audit-packages and/or download-vulnerability-list need not be run by

the root user. They will function as an unpriveleged user just so

the root user. They will function as an unprivileged user, as long

long as the user chosen has permmission to write the pkg-vulnerabilites

as the user chosen has permission to write the pkg-vulnerabilites

to ${PKGVULNDIR}.

A sample audit-packages.conf has been installed to:

Line 39 ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/audit-packages.conf.

If you want to use signature verification you will need to install GnuPG and

set the path for GPG appropriately in your audit-packages.conf. See

audit-packages.conf(5) and audit-packages(8) for further information.

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