From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 00:04:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EBD1065686 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:04:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kareemy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f19.google.com (mail-bw0-f19.google.com [209.85.218.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03D838FC24 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:04:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kareemy@gmail.com) Received: by mail-bw0-f19.google.com with SMTP id 12so4356321bwz.19 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:04:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=2PoNM2HzN1jp9jbraG+oPnFOA9S2xaYUrGC2ORwYkeo=; b=mvAvdtgCNp45dM+tKfitabjUAL15+bijkM3gLDh7gaHUKWfIs+r+6jDadrUcS+HZWA TPlse5hrsOoe3K9PF6AeFVVt/cmrJBe2G6+RHZ8ZGroMlhgG5ZDwzNCKTj7JueI76ZLu uzYFnR+Le5BI7t3W+1yZqsWxlUxqvZu2M08r8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=HgcHXr2rD6Y/dWdrBicTe2gnJmqepXiCfUt8vfHfTuf1lFFfINcxxDlQoWfPOMJKkE fTHH3CRJ3O+PlG/ynEReMfvBjqkAfaUg18T2CjdmP88Lq1tvW2d3OPxC4o0O37ZXAV9V b0RZseoXPpsAIXL2eWZ74XwA1px1xskUuJPqA= Received: by 10.103.189.15 with SMTP id r15mr1764729mup.126.1229816528840; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.228.12 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:42:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:42:08 -0600 From: kareemy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: portaudit and periodic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:04:38 -0000 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