Re: [Full-Disclosure] Cronning Update Jobs

[Remko Lodder <remko@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi nico,


Nico Golde wrote:
> Hallo Luke,
>
> * Luke Norman <luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-03-27 17:28]:
> [...] 
>
> > My question is this - are there any security risks to adding this 
> > command to a cron job, and having it execute say, once every 12 hours. 
> > Any and all input appreciated
>
>
> is it a risk if you do it manually? see? ;-)
> regards nico
=> at least with a manual run you can see what happends, an automated 
update goes without visual see-ing of what happends... So in that way 
automated updates are a bigger risk in security then manual runs.

HTH,

Kind regards,

Remko Lodder
Elvandar.org/DSINet.org
www.mostly-harmless.nl A Dutch community for helping newcomers on the 
hackerscene

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