<p dir="ltr">Patrick, I get daily emails about the security status of installed ports without those from jobs you mentioned. I think that it is built into the daily and weekly cronjobs. Or maybe I configured it with periodic.conf.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I agree with your assessment, though. It is probably a port dependency.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I also agree with the idea of putting freebsd-update into cron. Between that step and VM snapshots, I've found FreeBSD to be a dream come true (again) for OS updates. What I used to do once every 6-18 months out of fear of breaking a critical system has become a monthly task that takes a few minutes to complete. It's great!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Jaime</p>