Hi, Ahmed Kamal, a devops expert, is helping me to script the steps to upgrade a cluster of FreeBSD machines. For certain machines, we want to track the official FreeBSD releases and use freebsd-update to install official updates.
We found that when the invocation of freebsd-update was scripted and not run via a real tty, we can into this error: "freebsd-update fetch should not be run non-interactively." There are various workarounds mentioned on various web pages. However, should we modify freebsd-update so that it can work better when not run via a real tty? This would make it more devops/automation friendly. The closest thing I have found is "freebsd-update cron", which can fetch the updates and run without a real tty. The only problem with "freebsd-update cron" is that it sleeps a random amount of time between 1 and 3600 seconds before fetching the updates. This is OK when run in a cron job, but not OK when run as part of a devops automation framework. Anybody have ideas as to the best way to proceed in fixing this in freebsd-update? -- Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
