Hello,
I've been reading about
That looks interesting. I'd be interested in receiving an email each time updates are available.
However I guess this would require me to install and configure sendmail, postfix or something like that to send me e-mails over the internet, right?
I think I'd rather have a script execute each time updates are available. Each time an update is available, this script would connect to one of my existing e-mail accounts (for example a gmail account) and send an email to me using this account. This is usually what I do to send emails programmatically. I don't like to rely on something like sendmail to send emails as these emails tend to be marked as spam, or sometimes are blocked by email providers.
So what is the correct way to check if freebsd-updates are available?
doesn't seem to provide a particular return code for this scenario.
Thanks for your advices.
I've been reading about
freebsd-update cron
That looks interesting. I'd be interested in receiving an email each time updates are available.
However I guess this would require me to install and configure sendmail, postfix or something like that to send me e-mails over the internet, right?
I think I'd rather have a script execute each time updates are available. Each time an update is available, this script would connect to one of my existing e-mail accounts (for example a gmail account) and send an email to me using this account. This is usually what I do to send emails programmatically. I don't like to rely on something like sendmail to send emails as these emails tend to be marked as spam, or sometimes are blocked by email providers.
So what is the correct way to check if freebsd-updates are available?
freebsd-update fetch
doesn't seem to provide a particular return code for this scenario.
Thanks for your advices.