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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:06:47 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: today and yesterday log files
Message-ID:  <20011015150647.A55147@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIOEPKDKAA.patrick@mip.co.za>; from patrick@mip.co.za on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:04:44PM %2B0200
References:  <20011015141553.A54527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIOEPKDKAA.patrick@mip.co.za>

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:04:44PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote:
| Hi again,
| 
| Are you talking about setuid.yesterday, dmesg.yesterday and ipfw.yesterday?
| 
| I have traced them to /etc/security.  I have not read the script carefully
| enough to determine WHY it does that little trick, but that's where it
| happens.

Ah, I see.  It goes from dmesg to dmesg.today to dmesg.yesterday.
("It goes from God to Jerry to you... to the cleaners...." - Real Genius)

| /etc/security is invoked from the /etc/periodic/daily set of scripts.

And since my box is a laptop, that explains a lot.  :-)


jm
-- 
My other computer is your windows box.

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