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Message-ID: <40673F9C.2080009@elvandar.org> From: remko at elvandar.org (Remko Lodder) Subject: Cronning Update Jobs Hi nico, Nico Golde wrote: > Hallo Luke, > > * Luke Norman <luke@...manonline.co.uk> [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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