Automatic Update Emails

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peter.

Hello!

I'm considering using FreeBSD as a host system for some VMs, the VMs will likely be some atomic Linux distribution with unattended upgrades and whatnot. However, FreeBSD (AFAIK) isn't atomic and doesn't (rightly so) support unattended upgrades.

The manual says:
If patches exist, they will automatically be downloaded but will not be applied.The root user will be sent an email so that the patches may be reviewed and manually installed with freebsd-update install.
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However, I'm not sure how to set this up to mail multiple emails, nor do I know how to test it now rather than waiting for something to go out-of-date. As of now, I'm just running FreeBSD via QEMU on a Linux host for testing.

Any help appreciated.
 
Just sign up for the freebsd-announce mailing list. It's very low volume, only announcements about new versions, and security issues.


The "mail" the man page is talking about are the standard periodic(8) emails. There are daily, weekly and monthly reports automatically created. Also, the output from a script or executable that's run via cron(8) is automatically mailed to the user. That's how cron(8) works.
 
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