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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
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