From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 4 4:42:22 2000 From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 04:42:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from area51.v-wave.com (area51.v-wave.com [24.108.173.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E98037B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 04:42:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12038 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Dec 2000 12:42:20 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 05:42:19 -0700 From: Chris Wasser To: "Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA)" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD security check --footnote Message-ID: <20001204054219.D7848@skunkworks.area51-arpa.mil> References: <00ae01c05de8$286509c0$3cfdf2c8@nirvana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00ae01c05de8$286509c0$3cfdf2c8@nirvana>; from sama@supridad.com.br on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 08:48:45AM -0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Sender: flatline@area51.v-wave.com Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Forgot to mention, the periodic process is controlled by by cron(8), type "man cron" for more information on how cron works and can be configured. You can view the process by looking at /etc/crontab, for example: # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly however, you shouldn't edit this file, but rather redirect all mail for root@yourhost.com to useraccount@yourhost.com (or elsewhere) using your mailing system (for example, I use qmail, so I have all mail destined for root/postmaster sent to my user account instead where I normally read email) Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message