From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 17:09:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CB316A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:09:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01E6B43F93 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 17:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:12:43 -0600 Message-ID: <3FCFDAC9.6040908@daleco.biz> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:09:29 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031124 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Vrololjak References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Dec 2003 01:12:43.0828 (UTC) FILETIME=[E2D60F40:01C3BACC] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating question (fwd) X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:09:45 -0000 Gordon Vrololjak wrote: >reposting since maybe everyone was on holiday when I posted earlier? >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:12:45 -0800 (PST) > >Hello, >I'm just starting to play with FreeBSD 5.1. I've set it up, but have a > > > >My main question is that I want to run a secure stable system on the >internet, running ftp, apache httpd, and some other small apps. What is >the method in BSD that I should be using to keep up with the >updates/security issues? > >Thanks for your help. Any advice appreciated. > > For the system itself, use the method shown in the FreeBSD handbook ("new" method, Chapter 21 "The Cutting Edge"). For 3rd party software, install from the ports tree, then use portupgrade (also in ports) to keep up with the changes. An excellent article by Dru Lavigne: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html HTH, Kevin Kinsey