CrowdSec•4mo ago

cron.daily updated & outdated

Hi there! We have it set up so that cron sends us an email each time a script outputs something. Sometimes, we get a lot of emails like this:

/etc/cron.daily/crowdsec:
update for collection crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios available (currently:1.0, latest:1.1)
crowdsecurity/nginx is outdated because of collections:crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios

/etc/cron.daily/crowdsec:
update for collection crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios available (currently:1.0, latest:1.1)
crowdsecurity/nginx is outdated because of collections:crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios

If I'm not mistaken, when the script outputs this, it actually does update the specific collection. Am I right in this assumption? If I am, is there any way to turn off these outputs, or is there any possibility this will be disabled in future updates? We have almost a hundred machines, so when an update comes out, this leads to a lot of unnecessary emails. Thanks in advance!

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CrowdSec•4mo ago

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iiamloz•4mo ago

We will investigate it for next release, as I also get the same email I only get one email so not too bad for me but I know with 100 it would amplify the frustration. but yes your right in your assumption it does infact do the update for you.

mmetc.•4mo ago

I'd like to add some tests for this case, can you assign me a ticket @iiamloz ? thanks

iiamloz•4mo ago

yeah there already an issue somewhere let me dig it out

mmetc.•4mo ago

adding a " | grep -v outdated" to cscli hub upgrade will leave the rest of the output

alukasOP•4mo ago

Thank you very much for the help guys!

CrowdSec•4mo ago

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iiamloz•4mo ago

the issue is the script uses the stdout to detect changes, so I think it be more than a grep

iiamloz•4mo ago

@alukas you can track it via https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/issues/3481

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crowdsec job in daily · Issue #3481 · crowdsecurity/crowdsec

Guys, After update I have your script in cron.daily returning this and reporting daily at 7:00. Since your application is security tool and not virus - maybe try to be less intrusive ? /etc/cron.da...

mmetc.•4mo ago

No because the message is actually in stderr, and stdout is actually empty so the whole thing would be upgraded=$(/usr/bin/cscli --error hub upgrade 2> >(grep -v outdated)) by the way the --error flag should already filter out the warnings

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