> just fire a crontab entry and move on actually, that's a great idea, I just scheduled the following script this mails the diff of errata.html, but only if something changed
#!/bin/sh rel="44" # OpenBSD version ftp http://www.openbsd.org/errata"$rel".html > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then echo "Unable to fetch errata page!" exit 1 fi if [ ! -f .errata"$rel".old ]; then touch .errata"$rel".old fi mv errata"$rel".html .errata"$rel".new diff -u .errata"$rel".old .errata"$rel".new > .errata"$rel".diff if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then cat .errata"$rel".diff | mail -s "OpenBSD$rel errata changed" root rm .errata"$rel".old > /dev/null 2>&1 mv .errata"$rel".new .errata"$rel".old fi exit 0
