Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-13 Thread Alexandre L.
The full process is described here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Alexandre --- En date de : Lun 12.7.10, Michael a écrit : > De: Michael > Objet: Re: Staying up to date with security patches > À: "Mike Clarke" >

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-12 Thread Michael
On 02/07/2010 22:58, Mike Clarke wrote: On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote: Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead. The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the security-advisories mailing list. Th

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 02 July 2010, Ed Flecko wrote: > Since I will be doing a custom kernel at some point, I won't use > freebsd-update, I'm using cvsup instead. The alternative would be to just use the source code patches from the security-advisories mailing list. That way you don't have to rebuild the w

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Jason
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:03:01PM -0400, Bill Moran thus spake: In response to Ed Flecko : Hi folks, I've carefully read many different sources about keeping FreeBSD up to date, and I'm not quite "crystal-clear". I'm building a server with 8.0, and because it's a server, it will have very lit

Re: Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you again. After doing a sync/rebuild, does FreeBSD keep a log (somewhere) that actually shows which security patches have been applied? Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:13:24PM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thanks Bill! > > :-) > > How will I know if there have been security updates that have been > released (which means I need to sync & rebuild) since I've installed > the O.S.? For example, I'm running 8.0, and I'll bet there's been > se

Re: Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ed Flecko : > How will I know if there have been security updates that have been > released (which means I need to sync & rebuild) since I've installed > the O.S.? For example, I'm running 8.0, and I'll bet there's been > security releases since I first installed. Or...should you ju

Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Thanks Bill! :-) How will I know if there have been security updates that have been released (which means I need to sync & rebuild) since I've installed the O.S.? For example, I'm running 8.0, and I'll bet there's been security releases since I first installed. Or...should you just get in the hab

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ed Flecko : > Hi folks, > I've carefully read many different sources about keeping FreeBSD up to > date, and I'm not quite "crystal-clear". > > I'm building a server with 8.0, and because it's a server, it will > have very little software installed on it (probably Apache, maybe > B

Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I've carefully read many different sources about keeping FreeBSD up to date, and I'm not quite "crystal-clear". I'm building a server with 8.0, and because it's a server, it will have very little software installed on it (probably Apache, maybe BIND, etc.), and my primary concern is that