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On Fri, 6 Jun 2014, John Marino wrote:

> On 6/6/2014 10:18, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Sure, but really a couple of lines to warn people and wave them towards
>> next steps is probably advisable next time.
>>
>
> Maybe we can alter the "uname -a" string to show the EOL so that every
> time the machine boots you see it on top of the MOTD.
>
> :)
>
> Of course, that won't help for the turn-on-and-forget servers with
> uptime measured in years...
>
> As a serious questions, where should such a "you have X months/days
> remaining before server is EOL, update before then" messages pop up?
> weekly cron messages sent to root?

It could reasonably be added to /etc/periodic/security.  Updating the 
EOL date would have to be part of the release process.  And the message 
might point people to the list of EOL dates on freebsd.org for 
additional information.