staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, I'm suffering from some confusion regarding keeping my FreeBSD systems up-to-date. Does anybody have any 'best practices' advice? I've been reading three books (Complete BSD, Absolute, Unleased) as well the handbook, but I'm still not clear about how I should manage my up-to-date practices.

Re: staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Duane Winner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I know when to build a new kernel? How will I know when there is > a security patch for the kernel? > If I cronjob cvsup and rebuild the kernel once a week, will I be up to > date? Well, you'll never be more than a week out of date that way. If y

Re: staying 'up-to-date' questions

2004-01-07 Thread Andrew Boothman
Duane Winner wrote: I've installed 4.9-RELEASE from the .ISO image. I just want to be certain that I have all security patches now and in the future. If I have "*default release=cvs tag=RELEASE_4_9" in my cvsup file, will I get all the updates I need to be secure? No - you'll keep updating your so