From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 5 17:50:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (ether.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5483C37B772 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:50:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00537; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:57:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007060057.RAA00537@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security -> /etc/periodic/security ? In-reply-to: Your message of "06 Jul 2000 02:09:32 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:57:47 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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? That's just what we need - a configuration option that lets the admin turn security off. 8) -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message