freebsd-update

tl;dr - Don't add vmm_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf when trying to play with bhyve on a server using VirtualBox and then forget about it... I'm posting this partly in public celebration of my own stupidity o_O, but mostly because I found a lack of pertinent results when searching the web for...

I downloaded the FreeBSD 11.0-Release cd image and installed it on VirtualBox for testing. While I can install from both pkgs and ports, I have been unable to update the installation to the latest security updates by using freebsd-update fetch install. The command always end up displaying that...

Hello, 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...

Hello, I read that freebsd-update uses the /etc/freebsd-update.conf file to determine which components to update. The /etc/freebsd-update.conf file of my host contains the following line: Components src world kernel So I'm guessing that each time I'm trying to update a jail using...

Hello, I'm trying to create jails and keep them up to date and secure. I don't know if I should add the src component to my jails. As of now, I only download base.txz, lib32.txz and doc.txz from http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.0-RELEASE/ , extract them in a directory...

Hello, I've a simple question. I'm not system administrator so maybe my knowledge is a bit outdated. So, I've 4 simple, cheap VPS servers (web, builder, devel (port maintaining) and backup) and it's a little complicated thing to login to every server and run pkg upgrade or freebsd-update fetch...

Hi folks. Trying /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch and I'm getting the following errors: root@ding:~/updates # /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch src component not installed, skipped Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update6.freebsd.org... failed...

Hi, despite reading and re-reading the manual, I have an extremely hard time understanding how to keep my FreeBSD host and my FreeBSD jails secure. I am going to try to express my current understanding of FreeBSD as maybe the problem is that I don't understand it. There seems to be on one...

Since I have quite a few FreeBSD installations on a totally closed network, I'm looking to create a local mirror to update/upgrade these installations. The handbook has this nice article Build your own FreeBSD update server This may or may not be what I need, but I have questions as this...

Just a help for those having same problem with the same problem. This problem occurred after I upgrade my VPS to FreeBSD 11.0, only one machine has this problem. I tried everything I can do to fix it but none works. Today I found the source of the problem and got it fixed. Here is the solution...

Hi forum I am trying to upgrade a FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE box to 11-RELEASE using freebsd-update. I am following https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html#upgrade-binary and/or https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html. #...

I want to re-build my kernel for 10.1-p35 as the user land now is on -p40. Before I do so I would like to better understand some mechanics of FreeBSD: I am using freeBSD-update cron & install to keep my system up-to-date, and also portsnap fetch update to keep all installed ports updated. I...

I just got FreeBSD running on a raspberry pi. I tried a few different ISO files before finding one I could successfully boot. The one that worked for me was FreeBSD-11.0-RC3-arm-armv6-RPI2.img. After install I realised there is not only 11.0-RC3 available, but also 11.0-RELEASE. I'm brand new...

Hello. I think the community has been undesirably quiet and secretive about the recent known vulnerabilities, such as these: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-August/001739.html Are there still other known vulnerabilities currently? I'm considering installing FreeBSD...

I've upgraded FreeBSD from 10.2 to 10.3 release, but after the first reboot required by the system, if I run freebsd-update install the system stuck on Installing updates... If I use ctrl+t I can see the process go from running to nanosleep state nearly after 80% of the process and can't...

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...