Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 03:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/20575: /etc/security errors if no old compressed files Message-ID: <200008141010.DAA38622@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/20575; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/20575: /etc/security errors if no old compressed files
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:06:53 +0200
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 16:30:05 MST, Brian Somers wrote:
> > >Number: 20575
> > >Category: misc
> > >Synopsis: /etc/security errors if no old compressed files
>
> Perhaps zcat needs a -s option (as cat(1) has).
Perhaps, but you could get around this problem quite easily with the
following patch.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
Index: security
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/security,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -d -r1.41 security
--- security 2000/08/07 09:08:35 1.41
+++ security 2000/08/14 10:05:05
@@ -136,16 +136,22 @@
fi
fi
+msgfiles="`ls $LOG/messages.0* $LOG/messages 2>/dev/null`"
+
# Show login failures
#
separator
echo "${host} login failures:"
-zcat -f $LOG/messages.0* $LOG/messages | grep -i "^$yesterday.*login failure"
+if [ -n "${msgfiles}" ]; then
+ zcat -f ${msgfiles} | grep -i "^$yesterday.*login failure"
+fi
# Show tcp_wrapper warning messages
#
separator
echo "${host} refused connections:"
-zcat -f $LOG/messages.0* $LOG/messages | grep -i "^$yesterday.*refused connect"
+if [ -n "${msgfiles}" ]; then
+ zcat -f ${msgfiles} | grep -i "^$yesterday.*refused connect"
+fi
rm -f ${TMP}
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