Updating Free BSD

Ok, excuse the stupidity, but Im fairly new to BSD...Well ok Im not NEW, but Iv never used it online. My question is, I cant seem to find a way that allows me to update, Iv been reading through my books but cant find what it is to update my system with securty patches. Anyone here a good BSD user that can help me out?

Also Im starting to read about security for BSD and any site reccomendations would be cool to. But mainly I just wanna get the security patches going so I can play more. Im still reading through the site freebsd.org but I havnt found the "how to update Free BSD with security patches" part yet.

I have never used Free BSD... but this looks promising.

http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/

This updates the entire OS: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jeffay/dirt/FAQ/cvsup.html
A program that does the work for you: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/
Again, updating entire OS: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cvsup.html
Using cvsup to update: http://chxo.com/be2/software/asparag...sd_update.html

Those should do it.. after a couple searches, those are the main topics that came up so I picked a few.. if that's not what you want please drop me a line..

jag291

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Since phishphreek80 has one of the links I have, that must mean I'm on the right track.. :) Too bad he got it out before I finished searching..

Thanks man, just downloaded it. I might be reformatting again though to put 4.7 on instead of 5.0. Mainly because i have alot of tools on a 4.7 CD and would like to choose them that way, so Ill just back this thing up and use it, thanks again phishy.

You can find this (and lots more info) in the FreeBSD Handbook

As for keeping your system up-to-date read the A5 part.

SIrDice speaks words of wisdom , http://sddi.net/FBSDSecCheckList.html is a good simple checklist for security too, it is aimed at servers but it is still very useful for desk top . http://people.freebsd.org/~jkb/howto.html is the security bit from the main source . Personally i would just down load the mini iso/or 1st disc , install, take only cvsup and a gui if it makes ya more at ease , cvsup your source and ports tree , buildworld, customize kernel and add sound, install whatever you want using the ports tree (+9000 proggys now) and everything is up to date..
I have found that searching http://www.bsdforums.org is extremely helpful and has solved most every bump in the road i have ever found. With googlegroups you can search the comp.unix.bsd.misc newsgroup too.

As for keeping your installed ports up-to-date I can highly recommend installing the portupgrade tools (sysutils/portupgrade). With the portupgrade tools you can easily add, remove and upgrade your existing (installed) ports.

In short, use cvsup to keep your source (/usr/src) and ports (/usr/ports) trees up-to-date and use portupgrade to keep taps on the versions of your installed ports.