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:
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>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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