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Old 28th July 2008
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-Automatically updates OS and applications daily
As DrJ said, you are better off updating only vulnerable applications. You can check which applications you need to update with "portaudit" and periodic scripts (you will receive them by e-mail every day).

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Am I going to have to run Xorg?
There is no need for X on a headless machine, in my opinion.

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Which apps should be run in jails (I have yet to touch jails but they sound like they'll be useful to me)?
I would separate applications in jails by purpose they serve. For example, a jail "torrent", a jail "irc", a jail "fileserver", etc.
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