Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:45:23 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Pat Maddox <pergesu@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Daily chksetuid script - how to ignore certain dirs/filesystems? Message-ID: <20060319164523.GA88328@submonkey.net> Resent-Message-ID: <20060319164721.GB88328@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <810a540e0603190725lcd02074s30474611d3d23fe1@mail.gmail.com> References: <810a540e0603190258u6717013fybf3d5f0dad32d5a9@mail.gmail.com> <C043022E.ABDA%ceri@submonkey.net> <810a540e0603190725lcd02074s30474611d3d23fe1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 08:25:04AM -0700, Pat Maddox wrote:
> On 3/19/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> > On 19/3/06 10:58, "Pat Maddox" <pergesu@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a backup script that runs every night, backing up everything to
> > > a backup drive. When the security script runs, it finds a bunch of
> > > setuid files at /backup - I'd like to ignore those files, so I don't
> > > have to wade through them every day. I also back up to a remote
> > > server and it results in the same thing. How can I make it skip over
> > > the backup dir, or at least ignore it in the output? The cron file in
> > > question is /etc/periodic/security/100.chksetuid
> >
> > The best way to be to mount /backup nosuid.
>=20
> How about on the other server? The files go to the /home partition
> (and that's where they have to go).
I'd do the same there unless there is a good reason not to (and the same
for /tmp, /var/, etc) as SOP anyway.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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