It is a program not "just a shell script", you're trivializing how complicated it is. Complicated enough to prevent simple fixes to seemingly trivial problems, very frustrating./usr/sbin/freebsd-update is just a shell script, so you can just open it and read what it does.
Is there an option tofreebsd-update
or a separate utility that allows one to see what would be downloaded usingfreebsd-update fetch
without downloading?
freebsd-update cron
is probably the closest to what you want, edit /usr/sbin/freebsd-update
to adjust the sleep to your needs, see sleep `jot -r 1 0 3600`
ah, missed that......without downloading?