Does anyone know of a way to automate updates? What I usually do, manually, is to run:
freebsd-update fetch install
I see on man page one can put cron option to do fetch, but don’t see a way to automate the actual install.
I know it’s generally advised to apply them manually, but I did find this site with a sample script. I haven’t personally used it, so please let us know if it is effective or not. https://www.instructables.com/Keep-your-FreeBSD-system-up-to-date/
That article is just “how do you do upgrades”. Looks like target audience is for new users; also the article is 11 years old so a lot would have changed even if they covered the automation.
TIL you can do fetch and install together, I used to do them seperately (and manually) I have a cron job for
pkg update && PKG upgradethough.But the install part of freebsd-update prompts for user intervention. Don’t see anything in the man page about automation. Going to setup a VM to play around with this. will report back with findings.
