Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:13:24PM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:

> Thanks Bill!
> 
> :-)
> 
> How will I know if there have been security updates that have been
> released (which means I need to sync & rebuild) since I've installed
> the O.S.? For example, I'm running 8.0, and I'll bet there's been
> security releases since I first installed. Or...should you just get in
> the habit of syncing / updating after you install any particular
> release?

Sign up on the freebsd-announce list.
There may be a couple of other lists of interest to such as bugs and
 freebsd-security-notifications 

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     http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL

////jerry

> 
> Ed
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