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FreeBSD 7 - keep your system update with security patch

Keep your system up-to-date with security patch is the most important, and keep save from malicious attack that cam compromise your system except attack coming from your web application :)

The old way in FreeBSD, we have to buildworld which is time consuming and great news is, FreeBSD team has come out with a tool called freebsd-update. Lets get started !

Step :
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
# reboot

Output :

gateway# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.2-RELEASE from update4.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 35 patches...

Done :

gateway# freebsd-update install
Installing updates... done.



gateway# uname -a;uptime;date
FreeBSD gateway.domain.local 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 UTC 2009 root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
12:00PM up 14 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.14, 0.14, 0.08
Thu Aug 27 12:00:13 MYT 2009

gateway# reboot

If the update is successful, then your system should look like this :

$ uname -a
FreeBSD gateway.domainlocal 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 00:57:44 UTC 2009 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386

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