Re: best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Bill Stwalley
On 10/11/07, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/11/07, Bill Stwalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a > dozen > > servers with minimal efforts. > > I

best way to update ports

2007-10-10 Thread Bill Stwalley
Hi, I need your advice on how to update security patches for ports on a dozen servers with minimal efforts. As I gathered, I should run portaudit in cron jobs and then manually update the ports with vulnerabilities after reading UPDATING. Is this the best way? Is this manual way feasible for ma

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-10-03 Thread Bill Stwalley
On 9/30/07, Rakhesh Sasidharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Bill! > > > I have servers running 6.1 and 6.2. I use freebsd-update in cron jobs > to > > install binary security update to the base system, and use > cvsup/portupgrade > > in cron jobs to install port updates. By default, cvsup

Re: too late to change to security branch?

2007-09-27 Thread Bill Stwalley
On 9/27/07, Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Bill Stwalley said: > > I have servers running 6.1 and 6.2. I use freebsd-update in cron > > jobs to install binary security update to the base system, and use > > cvsup/portu

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2007-09-27 Thread Bill Stwalley
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too late to change to security branch?

2007-09-26 Thread Bill Stwalley
I have servers running 6.1 and 6.2. I use freebsd-update in cron jobs to install binary security update to the base system, and use cvsup/portupgrade in cron jobs to install port updates. By default, cvsup uses CURRENT branch. I am tired of some updates breaking something unnecessarily, and am t