Vincent Danen kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Keskiviikko 17 Syyskuu 2003 
22:07):
> On Wed Sep 17, 2003 at 01:52:09PM -0500, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> > >Advisories go out in many forms; I can't help it if you don't pay
> > >attention
> > >to one of the many:
> > >
> > >- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >- full-disclosure ml
> > >- RSS feed from MandrakeSecure
> > >- MandrakeSecure website (on nearly every single page)
> > >- MandrakeClub (latest advisory always on the front page)
> > >
> > >And no, announcements will not be going to this list or any other list
> > >other
> > >than the announce list.
> >
> > I appreciate the information and I just subscribed to the announce
> > list.  However, the same way I didn't know about the
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list I am sure there are many others that
> > are not aware of it.  If there is a bug that has a potential of
> > becoming a way to break into a computer I feel that all mailing list be
> > notified of it to minimize the potential damage.  Mandrake may have
> > many newbies (I hope you do, you need the business) which are new to
> > Linux and may need this extra help.  One nice touch SuSE has is a small
>
> I'm sorry, but I disagree.  I don't like the idea of spamming all of the
> lists (and while it might not be considered spam, why do it when there is
> one list that covers them all?).  It's a matter of education.  If someone
> gets on the newbie or expert list, they've likely visited the website.
> There is a link to the MandrakeSecure lists, clearly marked for
> security-related lists, on the mandrakelinux.com page where you can
> subscribe to the other lists.  How difficult is it to subscribe to these
> other lists?  No, one other list?
>
> Problem is people don't take security seriously, so they don't sign up for
> the list.  There isn't much we can do to combat that... in the same way,
> they may skip those messages we put on every single list and then what?
>
> Also, FWIW, if you sign up for MandrakeOnline, you'll get alerts sent to
> your inbox.
>
> > icon in the KDE task bar which changes color when there are updates
> > available.  Click on it and you get a menu allowing you to check for
> > updates, show the last update log or start the update process.  very
> > nice, clean and can help users keep their system safe.
>
> I agree, this would be nice and hopefully this is something that can be
> done for 9.3 or 10.0.

AFAIK in contribs there is a package started with the aim of doing this:
mdk-check-update-*

I haven't tested it myself so I can't say if it works... 

-- 
Regards

Thomas


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