Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:34:50 -0500 From: Dan Langille <dlangille@sourcefire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What's the latest release from freebsd-update? Message-ID: <CABU7BdejfOXh_yhao3=EfSPbk=qFQ08ZBs-iEGSNTBJ47i9RGw@mail.gmail.com>
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I want to write a check to let us know if a given server is on the latest
version.
For example, how can I determine that FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 is the latest
and greatest?
I could run freebsd-update and see what comes back, but that's not ideal
for a Nagios check.
This output seems promising:
$ sysctl kern.version
kern.version: FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Mon Nov 3 22:38:58 UTC 2014
root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Let's assume we use that as the check for the host.
What do we compare it to? Where can I find out that 9.3-RELEASE-p6 is
available?
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Dan Langille
Infrastructure & Operations
Talos Group
Sourcefire, Inc.
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