Of course, and most apps (like Nessus and Nikto) have scripts for updating. But
I believe we need to remind people of these facts when introducing them to
bootable CDs, that is all.
And it can become a pain to do it after each boot. Booting off a USB drive with
one of the linux distro would be sweet. I know people do it and I don't have
the equipment to test it. The only USB drive I have is 256 and I have stuff on
it..=)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jérôme" ATHIAS [mailto:jerome.athias@caramail.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 2:55 AM
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: Patch management tool
In-Reply-To: <CD516D770B376D46B464D55DF2C9E1F0029F4692@BDCRILBMCRP>
Hi,
nowadays, many distibutions have own tools to easily update the packages. I
think about "apt-get update/upgrade" for Debian, "yum" on Fedora...
You could probably in an easy way write a little script (maybe playing with
sudo) to automate these updates and cron it.
As i'm not a Linux expert, take this just like a probable way.
Regards.
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