Re: Security updates

2013-01-23 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:42:00 +0100 "Ralf Mardorf" wrote: RM> Because compiling does take very long, I will not update the whole RM> ports tree that often, I alos like to keep software versions that RM> fit to my needs when ever possible, but I guess without breaking RM> dependencies it theor

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Josh Carroll
> of course, for such use I will take the or stable version :-) > > I was sure it was easy :-) > > thanks > jdd Just to clarify, X-STABLE does not indicate end-user stability. It indicates the ABI is (generally) stable (ABI-compatibility is maintained within a branch). There are exceptions, but th

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread jdd
Manolis Kiagias a écrit : The FreeBSD base system gets security updates through freebsd-update, very easily: freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update update (assuming you install a -RELEASE version) of course, for such use I will take the or stable version :-) I was sure it was easy :-) thanks

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:09:01 +0200 jdd sur free <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello :-) > I'm new to freeBSD, so forgive me if my question is boring :-( [...] Welcome jjd! > > so then, my question: what about security updates? with openSUSE I > have an automatic update. For freeBSD, I didn't fin

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:39 PM, jdd sur free <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello :-) > so then, my question: what about security updates? with openSUSE I have an > automatic update. For freeBSD, I didn't find anything on this archive list > and the google search sent me to old doc (2003) > > http:

Re: security updates

2008-08-15 Thread Manolis Kiagias
jdd sur free wrote: Hello :-) I'm new to freeBSD, so forgive me if my question is boring :-( I just discover than my computer hosting company allow the use of freeBSD (http://www.ovh.com/fr/particulier/items/distributions/free_bsd.xml?sort=bsd&gm=pop) on they cheap (20€/month http://www.ovh.

Re: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Maxwell
I run "freebsd-update" as a cron job to check for security updates daily. At 07:16 PM 2/9/05 +0100, you wrote: Hexren writes: > How does it sound ;) > > If a bug that affects security is found, an update to fix is > produced. In my definition this counts as security update. Fine. So what's the con

Re: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Hexren writes: > How does it sound ;) > > If a bug that affects security is found, an update to fix is > produced. In my definition this counts as security update. Fine. So what's the connection to cron? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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Re: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jeff Maxwell wrote: I got this message today from cron, apparently my security update failed. Any Idea how to resolve this. I am also get a similar message on a 5.3 box. Fetching updates signature... fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/i386/4.9/updates.sig: Not FoundError fetching updates Jeff

Re: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jeff Maxwell wrote: I got this message today from cron, apparently my security update failed. Any Idea how to resolve this. I am also get a similar message on a 5.3 box. Fetching updates signature... fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/i386/4.9/updates.sig: Not FoundError fetching updates It appe

RE: security updates

2005-02-09 Thread Sander Holthaus - Orange XL
> I got this message today from cron, apparently my security > update failed. > > Any Idea how to resolve this. I am also get a similar message > on a 5.3 box. > > > Fetching updates signature... > fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/i386/4.9/updates.sig: > Not FoundError fetching updates >

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-30 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-30 11:14]: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: > [ ... ] > >>>If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the > >>>mergemaste

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: [ ... ] If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I want? (see above)

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: >>I don't want to build "all" sources when I just need these on my >>system (bin, man, and crypto). The same selection I use from a new >>install from /stand/sysinstall. Is that possibl

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I don't want to build "all" sources when I just need these on my system (bin, man, and crypto). The same selection I use from a new install from /stand/sysinstall. Is that possible? If you look at /etc/default/make.conf for a bunch of components

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Chris
On Monday 29 March 2004 01:28 pm, Sean Murphy wrote: > I would like to stay patched with the latest security advisories. > However usually I wait until the next release iso becomes available and > do a fresh install that includes all the known exploites. My reason > behind this is the "makeworld",