From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 7: 6:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB3B37B40C for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] helo=dogma) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 15t8OG-000KQr-00; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:06:48 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f9FE6mM55173; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:06:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:06:47 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: today and yesterday log files Message-ID: <20011015150647.A55147@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20011015141553.A54527@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:04:44PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:04:44PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: | Hi again, | | Are you talking about setuid.yesterday, dmesg.yesterday and ipfw.yesterday? | | I have traced them to /etc/security. I have not read the script carefully | enough to determine WHY it does that little trick, but that's where it | happens. Ah, I see. It goes from dmesg to dmesg.today to dmesg.yesterday. ("It goes from God to Jerry to you... to the cleaners...." - Real Genius) | /etc/security is invoked from the /etc/periodic/daily set of scripts. And since my box is a laptop, that explains a lot. :-) jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message