Question about periodic

[Matteo Riondato]

Hi folks,
I think there's a little mistake
in /etc/periodic/security/security.functions:

if check_diff() is called whith "new_only" as its first argument, as it
is in /etc/periodic/security/520.pfdenied (and 500.ipfwdenied), it will
use "grep '^>'" as a filter to grep only the different lines between the
ouput of "pfctl -sr -v 2>/dev/null | nawk '{if (/^block/) {buf=$0;
getline; gsub(" +"," ",$0); print buf$0;} }'" and /var/log/pf.today .

The diff between the output and the file is done with 
diff {daily_status_security_diff_flags} /var/log/pf.today $OUTPUT
and the filter is "piped" after this command, so we have:

diff {daily_status_security_diff_flags} /var/log/pf.today $OUTPUT | grep
'^>' 

but daily_status_security_diff_flags is set to "-b -u"
in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf so there aren't lines beginning with ">",
because we are doing an unified diff. The filter then gives no output
and the only output of /etc/periodic/security/520.pfdenied is 

$HOSTNAME pf denied packets:

This can be solved changing $filter from "grep '^>'" to "grep '^+'"
in /etc/periodic/security/security.functions, line 46. 

Best Regards
-- 
Rionda aka Matteo Riondato
GUFI Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)
BSD-FAQ-it Main Developer (http://utenti.gufi.org/~rionda)
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