Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:22:29 -1000 From: "Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC" <Jonathon.Wright@us.army.mil> To: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED) Message-ID: <55A74C53CF85244A8000286B9B0313FE19534CB157@SCHOENTB1EXMB02.ap.ds.army.mil> In-Reply-To: <46F365E4DFD3421A4869B342@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <55A74C53CF85244A8000286B9B0313FE19534CB154@SCHOENTB1EXMB02.ap.ds.army.mil> <46F365E4DFD3421A4869B342@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO Agreed,=20 Just thought it never hurt to ask. You never know.=20 Thanks again for the support.=20 Jonathon Jonathon Wright CISSP, MSIS, SSCP, BSIT RCERT PACIFIC - Architecture Cell Contractor, Quantum Research=20 (808) 438-1094 -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Staal [mailto:DStaal@usa.net]=20 Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:21 PM To: Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org' Subject: Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED) --As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA US= ARPAC is alleged to have said: > How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am=20 > running is supported via automated fashion? I'm trying to find a way=20 > to do this through a script of sorts so that when the date comes, I'm=20 > alerted that I need to upgrade. > > For example on this link: http://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup > It has a table with dates / versions. > How can I query this through the ports tree / or other means? --As for the rest, it is mine. I don't think there is an automated way to do this. Like most OSes, end of= life for a particular version is announced ahead of time, and when it occu= rs, through mailing lists and the media, but there aren't any automatic che= cks. You can check if there are current patches for your current version, = but the lack of patches doesn't mean that there necessarily won't be some a= t some future time. (I actually can't think of _any_ OS that has support for an 'automated'=20 check of this sort, besides possibly scraping a web page, which you could d= o with FreeBSD if you wanted.) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly= allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commer= cial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death= , or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of= local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO
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