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Date:      Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:43:05 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Ed Schouten <ed@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r184265 - head/etc/periodic/security
Message-ID:  <20081025234159.G17979@mp2.macomnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <20081025191656.GB5855@submonkey.net>
References:  <200810251845.m9PIjesE048003@svn.freebsd.org> <20081025191656.GB5855@submonkey.net>

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On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, 20:16+0100, Ceri Davies wrote:

> 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
> >
> > Log:
> >   Sort `mount -p' output by name before checking for any differences.
> >
> >   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.
> >
> >   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.
>
Seconded.  From the sysadmin point of view it's better to be on the
safe side.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov



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