From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 16:32:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72E2A1065678 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:32:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp134.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3978FC25 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 16:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp53.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id A689B59174 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:32:31 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp53.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id C458958FE5 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 11:32:14 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.1.0.101012 Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:32:11 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: Thread-Topic: determining freebsd-update status Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: determining freebsd-update status X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:32:40 -0000 to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working dir. 2 - check the output of freebsd-update IDS. is it the case that freebsd-update IDS checks base system status relative to what's referenced in the tag file? tia tom