From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 00:54:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C26216A9DC for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:54:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (a2.scoop.co.nz [202.50.109.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A3E43D45 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:54:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from a2.scoop.co.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k510sO2g009166; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by a2.scoop.co.nz (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id k510sOug009152; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@scoop.co.nz) X-Authentication-Warning: a2.scoop.co.nz: andrew owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton To: Bill Moran In-Reply-To: <20060531082354.5e9fbb90.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Message-ID: <20060601122627.F62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> References: <20060531230821.T62075@a2.scoop.co.nz> <20060531082354.5e9fbb90.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (a2.scoop.co.nz [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:54:24 +1200 (NZST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.1/1504/Thu Jun 1 07:59:14 2006 on a2.scoop.co.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting alerts about system upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:54:36 -0000 On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) > Andrew McNaughton 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