freebsd-update

Today I ran freebsd-update to get the latest set up security fixes. The update tool downloaded the new patches and then displayed a warning which read: "FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE is nearing its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2...

The files in /etc/mail freebsd.cf, sendmail.cf and submit.cf have changed, probably cause at one time I edited their respectful .mc files but it's been a long time. freebsd-update says these files are affected by updates but won't change them cause they've been modified locally. I can make a...

Hello! freebsd-update fetch does not find any updates (it gets stuck at p15): # freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 10.2-RELEASE from update6.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata...

Hi, I upgraded to 10.3 from 9.3 couple of weeks ago using buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installword. Now I cannot binary update: root@somehost:~ # uname -a FreeBSD some.host.com 10.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297672: Thu Apr 7 18:32:59 CEST 2016...

I am still quite new to FreeBSD, and so I stumble from question to question :) Today I upgraded some of our servers from 10.2 to 10.3 and this really drove me nuts. The "ordinary" patch level updates using ... % freebsd-update fetch update ... so far have been quite simple and fast. But...

Hey people, I was looking for some info about whats the best way to keep jails updated and found many posts saying to never run freebsd-update inside of the jails. Someone could explain why not? Actually I am doing a make world, but this take so many time. My jails have the empty folders...

When I was upgrading from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.2-RELEASE through a normal binary update with freebsd-update -r 10.2-RELEASE, I got a few errors about no files existing: /usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory I followed this solution, by updating the src, the...

Hello everyone, I have a problem updating a system from 10.2-RELEASE-p7 to 10.2-RELEASE-p8 and hope someone would be so nice to help me out. freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 10.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org...

First of all, I checked this thread. Since the thread was old and it doesn't solve my problem, I decided to make a new thread. (I'm not sure if that is accepted behavior or not, being new to the forum.) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-update-fetch-gives-error-invalid-signature.52013/...

Hi, I'd like to know if you have a good way of keeping a system completely up to date in a completely automated way. If my understanding is correct, I can add 42 8 * * * freebsd-update cron in root's crontab to have the base system (I guess that means the kernel and the programs in /bin)...

Hi, I stumbled upon this line in the FreeBSD official documentation: I'm stunned because I've been looking for ways to work with FreeBSD without FTP for days and it seems impossible. pkg install uses FTP and I find no way to globally override this freebsd-update uses FTP and I find no way to...

Hi FreeBSD Team, Myself JGhosh, an open source developer, working on NTP cherry pick integration from specific CERT: VU#852879 into a FreeBSD stable/10 private view. Myself facing one NTP to FreeBSD patch integration issue as two (2671 and 2672) out of eight CERT bugs are still missing...

I have a few FreeBSD 10.1 Release droplets in the Digital Ocean Cloud. None of them have /usr/src installed by default and it's unnecessary anyway because I'm using freebsd-update. This morning freebsd-update fetch found a whole bunch of files in /usr/src/contrib to update. The files were...

I did a binary upgrade with freebsd-update. It went something like this: # freebsd-update -r 10.1-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install Installing updates...chflags: ///var/empty: Read-only file system # shutdown -r now I didn't really mind the error and just rebooted the system when...

After I run freebsd-update fetch I get a long list of files (example) that will get updated with a freebsd-update install. For some of them, it's obvious that it's a service I need to restart (like sshd). But for others, it's not. What if there is a vulnerable process of csh running? How...