Problem with freebsd-update on 7.3-RELEASE
Konstantin Vasilyev
konstantin.vasiliev at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 09:02:57 UTC 2011
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 at 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.
>
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