RE: getting alerts about system upgrades

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Andrew McNaughton
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To: Bill Moran
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Subject: 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.

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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I find that using folders / pidgeon holes that the mailer
can filter things into works well. I have a freebsd-question,
freebsd-small
etc etc . The rules then presort inbound for me .. and
if it doesnt match a rule it lands in the normal INBOX..

I have used Cyrus / Sieve for this at home, and also do it in
(ptui) outlook at the office...

HTH

Murray Taylor

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Bytecraft Systems

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