freebsd-rustdate cron

cron will sleep a random amount to offset within an hour, attempt a fetch, and send an email to the owner of the MailTo email address if there are updates to install. This should be pretty much the same as freebsd-update’s cron command.

See also the check-fetch command; that can serve much the same purpose, but is quicker and lighter-weight, both on your system and on the server.

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If you’re running interactively, you should be using fetch.

For a quick check of whether there seem to be any upgrades, use check-fetch.