getting alerts about system upgrades

[Andrew McNaughton]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Murray Taylor wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
>> Andrew McNaughton
>>
>> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 31 May 2006 23:22:16 +1200 (NZST) Andrew McNaughton
>>> <andrew at scoop.co.nz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> portaudit gives me alerts when security issues arise in installed
>>>> ports, and portversion keeps me abreast of less critical updates.
>>>> It's a whole lot easier than the old situation of tracking the
>>>> security lists every day.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a comparably easy way to track available and critical
>>>> upgrades for the FreeBSD core?
>>>
>>> The canonical way to do this is to subscribe to announce@ and/or
>>> security-announce at freebsd.org.  Very low traffic, but
>> important stuff
>>> you need to know comes through those channels.
>>
>> I do that, but my mailbox gets lots of traffic.  Sometimes I
>> miss something, and as far as I know, there's then no way
>> system to keep reminding me, nor a way to quickly check the
>> current state of play.
>>
>
> I find that using folders / pidgeon holes that the mailer
> can filter things into works well. I have a freebsd-question,
> freebsd-small
> etc etc . The rules then presort inbound for me .. and
> if it doesnt match a rule it lands in the normal INBOX..

Helpful I'm sure, but I'm not new to email.

I've got extensive filtering in place, but there's a lot of irregular 
stuff that doesn't match rules, and sorting stuff like security-announce 
into a separate mailbox would just put it out of sight where it's easier 
to miss.

Andrew


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