Merge lp:~cjohnston/uwn/uwn into lp:uwn

[Chris Johnston]

Adds security and update scripts

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

review: Approve

=== added directory 'security-and-updates'
=== added file 'security-and-updates/ArchiveChanges.py'
--- security-and-updates/ArchiveChanges.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/ArchiveChanges.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in.
+# So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python ArchiveChanges.py".
+# In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+import datetime
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+from getopt import getopt, GetoptError
+
+def useage():
+    print """
+python ArchiveChanges.py [-h] [-s] [-r <release>] [-m <month>] [-y <year>]
+options:
+  -r <release>  Release name to process; eg. Dapper, Hardy, Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid
+  -m <month>    Month of Ubuntu Updates to process; eg. January, February, March ...
+  -y <year>     Year of Ubuntu Updates to process; eg. 2009, 2010, ...
+  -s            Process Security Updates
+  -n <num>      Max number of updates to print; defaults to 3000
+  -h            Print this help menu
+
+examples:
+
+  python ArchiveChanges.py -h
+
+  python ArchiveChanges.py -r Lucid -m April -y 2010
+
+  python ArchiveChanges.py -s
+"""
+    exit(1)
+
+# Default values
+release = "lucid"
+today = datetime.date.today()
+month = today.strftime("%B")
+year = today.strftime("%Y")
+security = False
+maxItems = False
+
+try:
+    opts, args = getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hsr:m:y:n:')
+    for opt, val in opts:
+        if opt == '-r':
+            release = val.lower()
+            continue
+        elif opt == '-m':
+            month = val.title()
+            continue
+        elif opt == '-y':
+            year = val
+            continue
+        elif opt == '-s':
+            security = True
+            break
+        elif opt == '-n':
+            maxItems = int(val)
+            continue           
+        elif opt == '-h':
+            print useage()
+            
+except GetoptError:
+    print useage()
+
+url ="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/%s-changes/%s-%s/thread.html" % (release, year, month)
+
+if security:
+    url = "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn"
+
+#grab the mailing page
+currentItems = 0
+mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+title = soup.find('title')
+print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+baseUrl = url[:url.rfind('/')]
+body = soup.html.body
+for li in body.findAll('li'):
+    if maxItems and (currentItems >= maxItems):
+        break
+    ahref = li.find('a')
+    # Only deal with valid links
+    if ahref != None:
+        packageName = ''
+        # Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+        if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+            closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+            packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+        elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+            packageName = ahref.string
+            
+        if len(packageName) > 1:
+            # Strip out the (Accepted)
+            whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+            if whereSource > 0 :
+                packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+            # If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+            extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+            if extraNames != -1:
+                packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+            print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+            currentItems = currentItems + 1
+print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Dapper.py'
--- security-and-updates/Dapper.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Dapper.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2010-June/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-April/'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Hardy.py'
--- security-and-updates/Hardy.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Hardy.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2010-June/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-April/'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Intrepid.py'
--- security-and-updates/Intrepid.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Intrepid.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2010-April/thread.html'
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-April/'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Jaunty.py'
--- security-and-updates/Jaunty.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Jaunty.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2010-June/thread.html'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Karmic.py'
--- security-and-updates/Karmic.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Karmic.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-June/thread.html'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Lucid.py'
--- security-and-updates/Lucid.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Lucid.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/karmic-changes/2010-March/thread.html'
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2010-June/thread.html'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+

=== added file 'security-and-updates/Security.py'
--- security-and-updates/Security.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000
+++ security-and-updates/Security.py	2010-06-15 00:39:26 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+###
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nick Ali
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+###
+
+###
+# To use this program open up a terminal and cd into the directory that it's in. So if this #is your desktop "cd ./Desktop". Then "python mailinglists3.py". That will change if you #rename this file. In order to run this you need the "urllib2" and "BeautifulSoup" modules for python. 
+
+#new feature: enter a number at the end of a string to limit the number of entries listed. Example: "python mailinglists3.py 10" will list 10 entries from each link that you have it pulling info from.
+###
+
+import urllib2
+import sys
+from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
+import HTMLParser
+
+### Variables
+#Mailing list URLs to grab data from. Add the urls here.
+
+###
+#this can be setup to do any of the different update sections. links for the usn wont need to be changed, but for each section it needs to be updated for each month. due to limits in terminal scrollback, it's usually good to only do one at a time.
+###
+
+httpUrl = [
+#'http://www.ubuntu.com/usn',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-April/thread.html',
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-April/thread.html'
+#'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jaunty-changes/2009-April/'
+'https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2010-May/thread.html'
+]
+### You should not have to change anything under this line ###
+
+maxItems = 3000
+if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+	maxItems = int(sys.argv[1]) 
+
+
+#grab the mailing page
+for currentUrl in httpUrl:
+	currentItems = 0
+	mlPage = urllib2.urlopen(currentUrl)
+	mlPage = mlPage.read()
+#	if "XHTML" in mlPage:
+#		c = """<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">\n<html>\n"""
+#		mlPage = c + '\n'.join(mlPage.split('\n')[3:])
+
+	mlPage = mlPage.replace('text/css">\n', 'text/css><!--\n')
+	mlPage = mlPage.replace('</style>', '--></style>')
+		
+	try:
+		soup = BeautifulSoup(mlPage)
+	except HTMLParser.HTMLParseError, m:
+		sys.stderr.write("Couldn't get page: %s\n" % m)
+		print mlPage
+		sys.exit()
+	finally:
+		fh = open('page', 'w')
+		fh.write(mlPage)
+		fh.close()
+
+	title = soup.find('title')
+	print '-------- Start ' + title.string + ' --------------'
+
+	baseUrl = currentUrl[:currentUrl.rfind('/')]
+	body = soup.html.body
+
+	for li in body.findAll('li'):
+		if currentItems >= maxItems:
+			break
+		ahref = li.find('a')
+
+		# Only deal with valid links
+		if ahref != None:
+			packageName = ''
+			# Strip out the [ubuntu/....
+			if ahref.string.startswith('[ubuntu'):
+				closingBracket = ahref.string.find(']');
+				packageName = ahref.string[closingBracket+2:].rstrip()
+			elif ahref.string.startswith('[USN'):
+				packageName = ahref.string
+				
+			if len(packageName) > 1:
+				# Strip out the (Accepted)
+				whereSource = packageName.find('(Accepted')
+				if whereSource > 0 :
+					packageName = packageName[:whereSource]
+
+				# If there are multiple packages, just use the first one
+				extraNames = packageName.find(',')
+				if extraNames != -1:
+					packageName = packageName[:extraNames]
+
+				print ' * ' + packageName + '- ' + baseUrl + '/' + ahref['href']
+				currentItems = currentItems + 1
+	print '-------- End ' + title.string + ' --------------\n'
+
+
+