From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 1:53:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44BDF14EC6 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 01:53:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: by dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au (5.64+1.3.1+0.50/UA-5.19) id AA20793; Thu, 27 May 1999 18:23:35 +0930 From: Gregory Lewis Message-Id: <9905270853.AA20793@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: /etc/security -- FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: from Lukas Ruf at "May 27, 99 10:22:09 am" To: lpruf@stud.ee.ethz.ch Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:23:34 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 678 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > where can I find informations on how to configure this file ? Its a shell script. You can find information about sh by doing 'man sh'. I'm not sure that this will help all that much though if you don't know much about shell scripts. > From where is it run ? crontab ? Ultimately, yes. If you look at etc/crontab you'll see a line like: 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root The "periodic daily" command will work through the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily, one of which, 450.status-security, runs /etc/security. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message