Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 11:46:22 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Daily, weekly, security scripts.... Message-ID: <20120524154622.GA92444@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <4FBE37CD.9040907@digiware.nl> References: <4FBDE81C.9010909@digiware.nl> <CAE-mSOKJfd1nnu7Gvyk2=9T%2BD-dc6PdURbg93sq1xuiRDvGF%2BA@mail.gmail.com> <4FBE37CD.9040907@digiware.nl>
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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 03:29:49PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> On 2012-05-24 14:01, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> > On 24 May 2012 11:49, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote:
> >> [I looked for a better list to drop this on, but other that freebsd-rc
> >> nothing seems close.]
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I nagged about the verbosity of the periodic scripts.
> >> But did not give any example.
>
> [example stripped]
>
> >> This would call for something like $periodic_quiet??
> >> and then generating the headers only if there was something to report.
>
>
> > Hi,
> > you could try to start with:
> >
> > security_show_success="NO"
> > daily_show_success="NO"
>
> I looked in some of the security scripts and that variable is not used
> in the ones I looked into.
>
> But perhaps in script/tools that does the overall calling of the
> /etc/periodic/security/* scripts.
Its handled in /usr/sbin/periodic
success=YES info=YES badconfig=NO empty_output=YES # Defaults when ${run}_* aren't YES/NO
for var in success info badconfig empty_output
do
case $(eval echo "\$${arg##*/}_show_$var") in
[Yy][Ee][Ss]) eval $var=YES;;
[Nn][Oo]) eval $var=NO;;
esac
done
Regards,
Gary
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