Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 00:13:36 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Three '450.status-security' scripts enabled by default Message-ID: <20171031230333.K40402@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <mailman.77.1509451204.82665.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> References: <mailman.77.1509451204.82665.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 700, Issue 2, Message: 10
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:52:58 +0900 (JST) Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> wrote:
> Hello,
Konnichiwa,
> While investigating the delay of daily periodic jobs, I found there
> are three '450.status-security' scripts under /etc/periodic, that is,
> /etc/periodic/{dairy,monthry,weekly}/450.status-security. All of them
> executes 'periodic security' and only difference is how often they are
> executed. So I think the purpose of them is to provide user option
> how often 'periodic security' is executed. OK, I understand it. But I
> can't understand setting about them in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
> because all of them are enabled by default. If the purpose is what I
> explained, normal user expects at most one of them is enabled. So are
> there any reason that all of them are enabled by default?
450.status-security is run (YES) each of those times, but unless you set
variables in /etc/periodic.conf that override /etc/default/periodic.conf
settings, it'll still use the default of 'daily' for the various scripts
run by that one. See periodic.conf(5) and /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
near the end.
I was curious as my (cough) 9.3 system precedes this feature, so dug
around to find this, which likely explains the rationale well enough:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=254974
Most people likely won't exercise this feature, if they know it exists.
Oh, and whether using pkg(8) or source updating isn't relevant to this.
cheers, Ian
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