Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:16:56 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r184265 - head/etc/periodic/security Message-ID: <20081025191656.GB5855@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <200810251845.m9PIjesE048003@svn.freebsd.org> References: <200810251845.m9PIjesE048003@svn.freebsd.org>
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--dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0000, Ed Schouten wrote: > Author: ed > Date: Sat Oct 25 18:45:40 2008 > New Revision: 184265 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184265 >=20 > Log: > Sort `mount -p' output by name before checking for any differences. > =20 > I noticed on a system at home that restarting named(8) causes the > /var/named/dev mount to be moved to the bottom of the mount list, > because it gets remounted. When I received the daily security email this > morning, I was quite amazed to see that the security report listed the > differences, while it was nothing out of the ordinary. > =20 > If we just throw the `mount -p' output through sort(1), we'll only > receive notifications about changes to mounts if something has really > changed. Hmm. I've always found it useful to know that the mount list has changed, so that I can work out if I did anything to cause it to happen or not - if not, I have something to worry about. I want to see this every time. Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJA3CoocfcwTS3JF8RArkHAJ93S4n3ZezxUY97phIkJFTx9z6yAQCdH34J tVDsTo8Q9jdedIULoEf//GM= =lbRt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dc+cDN39EJAMEtIO--
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