of /etc/daily. Some time later, /etc/daily became a set of periodic(8)
scripts. Now, this evolution continues, and /etc/security has been
broken into periodic(8) scripts to make local customization easier and
more maintainable.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: ru
it again and again, practically begging the Bad Man to insert his symlink
underneath it and send us down the path to oblivion.
Noticed by: David Lary <dlary@secureworks.net>
so that we don't see any more ``null message body, hope that's
ok'' messages.
We now see something like ``No output from the 3 files processed''.
Lump all output for a given periodic argument together so that
people with /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily (for example) will
get the output of those jobs together with the normal daily run
rather than getting a second email.
Prompted by: ben
All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted
by periodic(8). Output may be masked based on variable values in
periodic.conf.
It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses,
or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in
newsyslog.conf.
The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default
behaviour of periodic(8).
PR: 21250
The only change in the default functionality should be that
the output reports are slightly more verbose WRT files deleted.
Not objected to by: freebsd-arch
to a hostname. This will help those who keep a cluster of machines all with
the same hostname but different domain names.
PR: bin/9091
Submitted By: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
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