man freebsd-update
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Daniel Staal <dst...@usa.net> wrote: > --As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA > USARPAC is alleged to have said: > >> How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am >> running is supported via automated fashion? I'm trying to find a way to >> do this through a script of sorts so that when the date comes, I'm >> alerted that I need to upgrade. >> >> For example on this link: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup >> It has a table with dates / versions. >> How can I query this through the ports tree / or other means? > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > I don't think there is an automated way to do this. Like most OSes, end of > life for a particular version is announced ahead of time, and when it > occurs, through mailing lists and the media, but there aren't any automatic > checks. You can check if there are current patches for your current > version, but the lack of patches doesn't mean that there necessarily won't > be some at some future time. > > (I actually can't think of _any_ OS that has support for an 'automated' > check of this sort, besides possibly scraping a web page, which you could do > with FreeBSD if you wanted.) > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you > are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use > the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will > expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, > whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of > local copyright law. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
