Restricting Periodic Scripts

[Greg Larkin]

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On 2/6/13 12:26 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files
> stored on it.
> 
> But, the daily periodic scripts like 
> /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and 
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours iterating through those 
> folders, and I just don't need them to be scanned.
> 
> I see that I can edit /etc/locate.rc to fix the behavior for 
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate but I don't see a way to exclude 
> folders from other scripts like
> /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm from scanning them.  Is there
> any way to prune out folders that I don't want scanned, or should I
> just disable those jobs?
> 

Hi Tim,

Have a look at this posting from 2012:
http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-31846.html

There is a patch for the script in there, but I didn't check to see if
the author ever filed a PR.  There's also a workaround that involves
using the nosuid mount option, if that is acceptable in your environment.

Regards,
Greg

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