Re: getting alerts about system upgrades

On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:

On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST)
Andrew McNaughton <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx Very low traffic, but important
stuff you need to know comes through those channels.

There is also an RSS feed, which I prefer over the mailing list:

http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.rdf

-Andy.
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