full-disclosure - Cronning Update Jobs

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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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