From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 24 04:36:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B15943 for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:36:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce.williams@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lb0-x234.google.com (mail-lb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E40182A4B for ; Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id q8so116806lbi.39 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:36:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=g/3NSljGTvm2XmGYrn1WvtE5+hQHcPq//dipgv8gNGQ=; b=zzePRNP0xQIG46iIcHnYRJ88pyA5CZ5tMLziVjw9rFPZ5sbatC414F0mjnSqvKJ6n+ LaAM8Vy3ujUA/NqzxgeBzIP0o9XubignSep5LmSt6tLVU7Q4wMOlcWSJnIsTFFLOr1AI LSBtexIdOh+80yLpYQmaq1AVkhvxVOXHO0xJq9MZLgWAqPuICRpXkMNhi1P3XnurPu3l +DA9XbS35iElWBvY6kM8a4DbdS4H0Q0dNiO/h+JV8osVv4ufOsgnLgGhPOpWQPiJ5PBg iwXed6wfEwX2Dq0BX/4AeSjVhxo8ZobqgPaZmBbVaw36VtuWF2g9OOlnfn4QNAR0mrYV yl0Q== X-Received: by 10.112.35.52 with SMTP id e20mr38651lbj.11.1377318975726; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:36:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: royce.williams@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.138.227 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 21:35:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5217AD9E.1000100@bluerosetech.com> References: <20130822204958.GC24767@caravan.chchile.org> <5217AD9E.1000100@bluerosetech.com> From: Royce Williams Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:35:55 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: YYgbOUb0pnF9skJG_leZxPuiAmg Message-ID: Subject: Re: weekly periodic security status To: Darren Pilgrim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Hackers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 04:36:18 -0000 On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Darren Pilgrim < list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote: > Thank you for this, but if I may make one suggestion: don't combine all > the security report settings--keep both daily_* and weekly_*. This makes > possible running some security tasks on a daily basis and others on a > weekly basis. For example, daily pkg/portaudit checks, but weekly > filesystem scans. > Agreed. I welcome and would use the weekly option at this level of granularity, but would like to retain daily for many checks, and so would not use weekly if was an all-or-nothing option. Royce