From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 6 10:33:49 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA13904 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:33:49 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA13898 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:33:48 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA18757; Mon, 6 Mar 95 11:27:08 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9503061827.AA18757@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Daily mails To: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 95 11:27:07 MST Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503061353.AA10769@cardhu.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Mar 6, 95 03:53:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Has anyone cleaned up the daily/security scripts not to send any mail if > nothing seems to be wrong? How do you tell the difference between a genuine "no problems" and no mail as the result of having been hacked? No news is *not* good news from the way that's supposed to work. On the other hand, I think it is much too frequent for your typical site; daily is simply too much crap. Some of this type of thing should be handled via administrative configuration and have much less agressive defaults. The aggressive defaults until that happens are probably a good idea security-wise but are still a pain. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.