conf/50956: daily_status_disks_df_flags in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf inconsistent

Steve freebsd at stevenwills.com
Mon Apr 14 12:20:14 PDT 2003


>Number:         50956
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       daily_status_disks_df_flags in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf inconsistent
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 14 12:20:09 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Steve
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p9 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD tigger.example.com 4.7-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p9 #4: Mon Mar 24 16:21:47 EST 2003 steve at tigger.example.com:/common/FreeBSD/obj/common/FreeBSD/src/sys/TIGGER i386


	
>Description:

    The flags to df for daily status mail (specified by
daily_status_disks_df_flags") is inconsistent. The flags were set to include
"-t nonfs" in rev 1.5. Since the commit doesn't say why, I assume this is to
prevent non local file systems from being listed. If this is the case, then
"-l" would be a better option, as it will also exclude all network file
systems, for example smbfs, which -t "nonfs" does not do. If my reasoning is
wrong, please let me know.

>How-To-Repeat:
	mount non nfs network file systems (smbfs for example) and receive daily
periodic mail. 

>Fix:

	Change daily_status_disks_df_flags in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf to
"-k -l"

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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