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Date:      Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:02:13 +0300
From:      Konstantin Vasilyev <konstantin.vasiliev@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with freebsd-update on 7.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <ihrcbg$ppp$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110127075618.GA53094@jackstaff.jumbobrian.com>
References:  <ihr6af$ku0$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110127075618.GA53094@jackstaff.jumbobrian.com>

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I know about how freedsd-update work.
I use for a long time.
But I don't understand why is freebsd-update going to update
> FreeBSD ota2.cellnetrix.com 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4
to
> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.3-RELEASE-p4:...

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With best regards,
Konstantin Vasilyev


27.01.2011 10:56, Brian DeFreitas пишет:
> Konstantin Vasilyev wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I have installed
>> %uname -a
>> FreeBSD ota2.cellnetrix.com 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 #3:
>> Tue Jan 25 19:19:34 MSK 2011
>> kvasilev@ota2.cellnetrix.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>
>> I have
>> @daily 		freebsd-update cron
>> in root's crontab.
>>
>> Why does freebsd-update mail me the following?
> [...]
>> Who can give me ideas what's happening?
> 
> Have you checked the man page for freebsd-update(8) ?
> 
> cron         Sleep a random amount of time between 1 and 3600 seconds,
>              then download updates as if the fetch command was used.  If
>              updates are downloaded, an email will be sent (to root or a
>              different address if specified via the -t option or in the
>              configuration file).
> 
> Sounds exactly like the expected behavior to me.
> 
> So, the cron subcommand only does the 'fetch' part of freebsd-update.
> You'll still need to run 'freebsd-update install' to actually install
> the updates.
> 
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