Re: VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz Download Error?

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

That's what pulledpork was invented to do. JJ cummings can speak to  
that.

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On May 29, 2009, at 1:48 PM, "Jefferson, Shawn" <Shawn.Jefferson () bcferries com 
> wrote:

> Does anyone have a shell script that downloads the md5 and compares  
> it to the last one before running oinkmaster.pl that they want to  
> share?
>
> I'm in the "downloading once a day" camp, and I've noticed that this  
> has been failing quite often lately.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandro guly Zaccarini [mailto:guly () luv guly org]
> Sent: May 29, 2009 10:36 AM
> To: 'Snort Users List'
> Cc: Jeff Dell
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] VRT Rules snapshot-CURRENT.tar.gz  
> Download Error?
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:56:01PM -0400, Jeff Dell wrote:
> > The problem with once a week is what happens if you check on Monday  
> > at 8am
> > and the rules are updated on Monday at 8:05? You won't get any  
> > updates for 2
> > weeks. It would be really great to have something like a checksum  
> > that will
> > be available to see if there is a change in the rules file.
>
> actually there is an md5 file, and i was thinkin' about asking why VRT
> changed its format without alerting users before.
> personally, i download daily that md5 file and compare to the latest  
> md5
> i've got: if they don't match it means that there is something new.
>
> but we're a bit OT here :)
>
> sz
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