From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 01:13:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55FB1106566B for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com (mail-tul01m020-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A81F8FC1A for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbwd18 with SMTP id wd18so18095341obb.13 for ; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:13:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oPkMKqRd3C6rcuU1cMVjs8YpYrVSRuk/+lDr1SLhxxs=; b=Lu0HR979L4dZNNt2QxljYh4hrtypgGIqNGon+XZazdBGFhlDty12UnET8X7ab5CidU HrmKpVOFt+YJj0caBxONfQ0JldOSdY/7akHXSlXSoJZ6UoNPGUL4A/ZiQNB+5hlEZJaL +VAufW+vLFdh99wRPUqyM7cKjLPRVE4hNk69Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.51.37 with SMTP id h5mr42923649obo.51.1325553186731; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:13:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.152.6 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:13:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:13:06 -0800 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: periodic emails X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:13:08 -0000 On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb < > bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> why do we send all these empty headings for periodic emails or given the= re >> is >> no output to this one can we >> >> 1) suppress the empty sections (to me that sounds a bit like a wrong >> =A0 return code or something maybe?), and >> 2) add an option to suppress "empty" periodic emails entirely? >> >> Sample: >> ------- >> Removing stale files from /var/preserve: >> >> Cleaning out old system announcements: >> >> Removing stale files from /var/rwho: >> >> Backup passwd and group files: >> >> Verifying group file syntax: >> /etc/group is fine >> >> Security check: >> =A0 (output mailed separately) >> >> Checking for denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR): >> >> -- End of daily output -- >> ------- >> >> >> I'd also like to get the hostname out of the headings of the security >> emails >> if possible. =A0It's in the Subject:. =A0There's no need to have each se= ction >> header >> starting differently. =A0I understand that it would be a POLA problem gi= ven >> a lot >> of people parse these emails automatically so adding an option for that >> would be >> ok with me as well. >> >> Any takers? > > Please don't! The headers with no entries confirm that the check has been > run. > > I really don't care about the hostnames, but the POLA issue makes me > seriously question whther it is worth doing. (Based on followup emails) No one's suggesting that the defaults be changed. We're just trying to make sure that things are made more sane if empty. Thanks! -Garrett