Question about downloading rules

[Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>]

I took Keith's script that fetches the stable rules tarball, untars it,
copies the rules to the rules directory and then deletes the tarball,
and I modified it so it will 1) make sure the files were actually
fetched and send mail if they weren't, and 2) make sure the MD5 checksum
is correct, and page me if it isn't (and not run the extract, of
course.)

That's OK, but I'd like to be nicer to the net by only downloading the
rules if they've been updated.  Can wget snatch the date field from the
web page?  Are the rules updated every day?  (Somehow I think not.)

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
AVIEN Founding Member



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