{"id":32223,"date":"2010-03-16T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=32223"},"modified":"2015-02-03T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:38:15","slug":"patchalert-automate-sun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/about\/security-resources\/bestpractice\/unix\/patchalert-automate-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate Sun Patches"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>PatchAlert. a Information Services &amp; Technology patch tool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use PatchAlert, a package for Suns that you can pick up by <a href=\"mailto:ithelp@bu.edu\">contacting IT HELP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PatchAlert comes with three scripts and a Patch Exclude file. The first script, <em>PatchAlert.on<\/em>, runs out of root&#8217;s crontab and mails the system administrator a list of patch numbers that should be installed. The system administrator can then call a second script, <em>EZpatchInstaller<\/em>, to install the patches. If comfortable with automatic patch installations, the admin can invoke a third script, <em>PatchManager<\/em>, to install patches at a regular convenient time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PatchAlert. a Information Services &amp; Technology patch tool Use PatchAlert, a package for Suns that you can pick up by contacting IT HELP. PatchAlert comes with three scripts and a Patch Exclude file. The first script, PatchAlert.on, runs out of root&#8217;s crontab and mails the system administrator a list of patch numbers that should be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1486,"featured_media":0,"parent":6553,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32223"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89497,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32223\/revisions\/89497"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}