staying 'up-to-date' questions

[Lowell Gilbert]

Duane Winner <duanewinner at att.net> 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Well, you'll never be more than a week out of date that way.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).
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