Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:15:05 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portaudit in periodic Message-ID: <20071126171505.6828e651@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <474AA3E4.7020807@net.utcluj.ro> References: <47469D3F.1070207@netfence.it> <474AA3E4.7020807@net.utcluj.ro>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:45:56 +0200 Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro> wrote: > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatically. The > > security reports will mention no vulnerability, even when I know > > they are there. > > Running "periodic daily" from a shell does it all for good, so that > > for a few days I'll see the correct warnings. > > I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another > PATH then what the script gets if it's run from the shell. That shouldn't be relevant, the update should be done as a side-effect of the daily security run, and the path to portaudit is hard-coded into the periodic script.
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