From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 4 13:30:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05E837BC8E; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:30:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139RUO-0006p8-00; Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:07:44 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 139RUO-000Jjj-00; Tue, 04 Jul 2000 13:07:44 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:07:44 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Brian Somers Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? Message-ID: <20000704130744.D13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <200007040825.JAA03271@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007040825.JAA03271@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brian Somers wrote: >> Well, "periodic security" will work as long as /etc/periodic/security >> exists, so I guess you just mean the docs need updating? I'll get to >> that if someone is actually planning on committing this stuff. >=20 > Perhaps the best option is to do with the inline security option and=20 > just run ``periodic security'' from cron ? I can commit the changes. I don't think there's really a problem with just running security from daily. I can add a note that this is normal practice in the manpage, and that security shouldn't be run separately unless you set daily_security_enable=3DNO or whatever the option is. --=20 Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: L2wKgXBd+m0yOO7lHvlBgD76Q3qlfpTM iQCVAwUBOWHTkCsPVtiZOS99AQEJZgP+Ly9fbYQFFKE5Qj+2N2L6I3+1SB5YMA9p dCwXX79Cz8sMHmxVqcm/w6dfvZ34RAZK6HkHZwlixnSXHV2BtxbDD7Uv3p09IbT/ t03D4/chMF2i6w2qbHv/ZzN9LgC51vKA1CHhQ3rnwdQH2OAeyO9QKRFO5XP9E/Jh cCloESlI9/E= =yZ+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pQhZXvAqiZgbeUkD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message