I've snipped Thomas's comments but I concur entirely with what he has said. Note that the Solaris local checks function in a similar manner to the Debian ones. We extract the patch number for the fixed version and check that it is there. If it it not, we flag an issue. (Actually we do a bit more but for the sake of this argument). I would certainly not recommend checking versions ala ./buggyapp -v and regexing the response. I suppose a minor caveat would be 3rd party apps, but here we do not have to deal with backports.
Cheers, Tim -- Tim Brown <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.nth-dimension.org.uk/> _______________________________________________ Openvas-plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-plugins
