misc/153543: Allow periodic to read periodic.conf from
/usr/local/etc/
Sean McAfee
smcafee at collaborativefusion.com
Thu Dec 30 12:50:09 UTC 2010
>Number: 153543
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Allow periodic to read periodic.conf from /usr/local/etc/
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 30 12:50:08 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Sean McAfee
>Release: FreeBSD 8.1
>Organization:
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxxx 8.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 #1: Wed Dec 8 11:56:34 UTC 2010 root at xxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
In an effort to simplify our configurations, we tried moving our periodic.conf (which controls a few local periodic scripts installed to /usr/local/etc/periodic/) to /usr/local/etc/, only to find that the only overrides listed in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf are /etc/periodic.conf and /etc/periodic.conf.local.
Since locally installed periodic scripts make their way into /usr/local/etc/periodic (instead of /etc/periodic), it makes sense to have the configuration live in /usr/local/etc/ as well.
This seems to be more of an oversight (or holdover from OpenBSD ported code), than a deliberate decision.
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt to install a /usr/local/etc/periodic.conf that controls which scripts are run.
>Fix:
Apply the attached patch (done against 8.2-RC1).
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- /etc/defaults/periodic.conf.orig 2010-12-30 07:36:38.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/defaults/periodic.conf 2010-12-30 07:37:01.000000000 -0500
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
#
# What files override these defaults ?
-periodic_conf_files="/etc/periodic.conf /etc/periodic.conf.local"
+periodic_conf_files="/etc/periodic.conf /etc/periodic.conf.local /usr/local/etc/periodic.conf"
# periodic script dirs
local_periodic="/usr/local/etc/periodic"
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