Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
more so (for the base system I just install them always, as it doesn't pay off in the long run to skip them). Portaudit for a (web)server has a lot of notifications that are not critical, like several issues over the last year with php's safe mode that any sane webserver admin doesn't use. i

Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Kalle Møller
Hi I'm looking for a generel guide / howto for maintaining a FreeBSD system - not all the ports, just the base system. One that describe how often you should update your port-tree, which basic ports like audit you should have. Its a server I have that runs different services, so I'm also looking

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Gary Gatten
Freebsd.org - docs; several docs there - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed May 06 19:43:07 2009 Subject: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle Hi

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Kalle Møller kalle.mol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm looking for a generel guide / howto for maintaining a FreeBSD system - not all the ports, just the base system. One that describe how often you should update your port-tree, which basic ports like audit you

Re: Maintaining a FreeBSD system - Workcycle

2009-05-06 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 07 May 2009 05:48:10 Tim Judd wrote: 2) Install portaudit and watch the periodic mailings that are sent to you. They list vulnerabilities in ports that really should be addressed. Not really. You can use the same common sense as with the base system and even more so (for the base