On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > Judging by the output you showed, you've certainly managed to download > the -p4 binary patch set. The 'No updates needed' message is just > telling you you've already got all the necessary update patchsets > downloaded. The next step is running: > > # freebsd-update install > > which will actually deploy those updates on your live system. Which you > do mention doing. Hmmm... > > You aren't running a custom kernel according to your uname output, so > your kernel image should have been updated. However, you would still > need to reboot after installing the updates. Until you do, programs like > uname that query the currently running kernel image will continue to > show the old version numbers.
I would encourage you to please run uname -a on your own box before beating up the newbie. I think I understand where his confusion lies. I checked the output on two of my boxes: # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update3.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4. # uname -a FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011 r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 All my machines are up to current patch level, but show p3 when I run uname -a. > Note that if a security update is just to some userland programs, > freebsd-update won't touch the OS kernel, so the reported version number > doesn't change even though the update has been applied. In these sort > of cases, it's not necessary to reboot, just to restart any long running > processes (if any) affected by the update. The security advisory should > have more detailed instructions about exactly what to do. (The -p2 to > -p3 update was like this, but the -p3 to -p4 update definitely did > affect the kernel so a reboot was necessary.) I'm not confident that you are correct here. See above. Either p3-p4 did not touch the kernel, or the OP has a legitimate question. _______________________________________________ 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"
