Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:42:08 -0600 From: kareemy <kareemy@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portaudit and periodic Message-ID: <c91ede190812201542k51389cf4j14d9635d03c92cb3@mail.gmail.com>
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I am using FreeBSD 7-RELEASE. I installed portaudit. The FreeBSD handbook stated that during the install process, the configuration files for periodic will be updated, permitting portaudit output in the daily security runs. portaudit was not run in my daily security runs. There is no mention of portaudit in /etc/periodic.conf or /etc/defaults/periodic.conf. I read /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.portaudit and found that it references 3 variables: daily_status_security_portaudit_enable daily_status_security_portaudit_expiry daily_status_security_portaudit_user I can't find those variables defined anywhere in any periodic.conf file. I understand I can just manually add daily_status_security_portaudit_enable="YES" to my periodic.conf and be good to go. But I am wondering about the discrepancy with the Freebsd handbook. Is the FreeBSD handbook out of date or incorrect in this regard or is there another reason why portaudit didn't update the periodic config files? Thanks, Kareem Dana
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