From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 17: 9:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lafontaine.cybercable.fr (lafontaine.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10C6C37B918 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 9111121 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 00:09:33 -0000 Received: from r224m65.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([195.132.224.65]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jul 2000 00:09:33 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA13361; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:09:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Posted-Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 02:09:32 +0200 (CEST) To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Brian Somers , James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? References: <200007040825.JAA03271@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20000704130744.D13714@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[<97Zd*>^#%Y5Cxv;%Y[PT-LW3;A:fRrJ8+^k"e7@+30g0YD0*^^3jgyShN7o?a]C la*Zv'5NA,=963bM%J^o]C From: Cyrille Lefevre Date: 06 Jul 2000 02:09:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:07:44 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Canyonlands" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst writes: > 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. why not even something like security_enable=[YES|NO] and security_periode=[daily|weekly|monthly] defaulting to daily? Cyrille. -- home:mailto:clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net Supprimer "no-spam." pour me repondre. work:mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@no-spam.edf.fr Remove "no-spam." to answer me back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message