getting alerts about system upgrades

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
> Andrew McNaughton <andrew at 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 at 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


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