Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:02:13 +0300 From: Konstantin Vasilyev <konstantin.vasiliev@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with freebsd-update on 7.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <ihrcbg$ppp$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20110127075618.GA53094@jackstaff.jumbobrian.com> References: <ihr6af$ku0$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110127075618.GA53094@jackstaff.jumbobrian.com>
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I know about how freedsd-update work. I use for a long time. But I don't understand why is freebsd-update going to update > FreeBSD ota2.cellnetrix.com 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 to > The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.3-RELEASE-p4:... -- With best regards, Konstantin Vasilyev 27.01.2011 10:56, Brian DeFreitas пишет: > Konstantin Vasilyev wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I have installed >> %uname -a >> FreeBSD ota2.cellnetrix.com 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 #3: >> Tue Jan 25 19:19:34 MSK 2011 >> kvasilev@ota2.cellnetrix.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> >> I have >> @daily freebsd-update cron >> in root's crontab. >> >> Why does freebsd-update mail me the following? > [...] >> Who can give me ideas what's happening? > > Have you checked the man page for freebsd-update(8) ? > > cron Sleep a random amount of time between 1 and 3600 seconds, > then download updates as if the fetch command was used. If > updates are downloaded, an email will be sent (to root or a > different address if specified via the -t option or in the > configuration file). > > Sounds exactly like the expected behavior to me. > > So, the cron subcommand only does the 'fetch' part of freebsd-update. > You'll still need to run 'freebsd-update install' to actually install > the updates. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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