Re: Quick way to check for out of date software?

From: Alex Colvin (alexc_at_std.com)
Date: 10/17/03


Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:02:02 +0000 (UTC)


>But does there exist some cross-platform way to simply query the software
>installed on the system for their current versions, then check in an online
>database to see which software is out of date, and even more useful, which
>are _dangerously_ out of date (due to major vulnerabilities)?

        perl -e 'for (<*>) { print "$_\n" if -f and -B and 30<-M }'

works for me ;-)

-- 
	mac the naïf


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