From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 11:09:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8158616A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A248843D55 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:09:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004010719095701500lfql0e>; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 19:09:57 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9BBA755; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:09:56 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: duanewinner@att.net References: <1073497489.3925.22.camel@closetotheedge> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Jan 2004 14:09:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1073497489.3925.22.camel@closetotheedge> Message-ID: <44brpf1sor.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: staying 'up-to-date' questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:09:58 -0000 Duane Winner 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 Well, you'll never be more than a week out of date that way.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 you're using a security branch, there no point in updating unless there's a security advisory (http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv), which would be publicized on the FreeBSD Security Notifications mailing list (http://www.freebsd.org/security/#ml). username/password "public"