Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting alerts about system upgrades Message-ID: <20060601122627.F62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060531082354.5e9fbb90.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20060531230821.T62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> <20060531082354.5e9fbb90.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) > Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> wrote: >> >> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed ports, >> and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates. It's a whole >> lot easier than the old situation of tracking the security lists every >> day. >> >> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical upgrades >> for the FreeBSD core? > > The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce@ and/or > security-announce@freebsd.org. Very low traffic, but important > stuff you need to know comes through those channels. I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic. Sometimes I miss something, and as far as I know, there's then no way system to keep reminding me, nor a way to quickly check the current state of play. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew McNaughton http://www.scoop.co.nz/ andrew@scoop.co.nz Mobile: +61 422 753 792 pgp keyid: 1C7A8CFD -- "We are trying to figure out how you conduct a war against something other than a nation-state and how ... you conduct a war in countries that you are not at war with," -- Donald Rumsfeld, 27 Jan 2006
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