Daily, weekly, security scripts....

Willem Jan Withagen wjw at digiware.nl
Thu May 24 13:29:54 UTC 2012


On 2012-05-24 14:01, Sergey Kandaurov wrote:
> On 24 May 2012 11:49, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
>> [I looked for a better list to drop this on, but other that freebsd-rc
>> nothing seems close.]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I nagged about the verbosity of the periodic scripts.
>> But did not give any example.

[example stripped]

>> This would call for something like $periodic_quiet??
>> and then generating the headers only if there was something to report.


> Hi,
> you could try to start with:
> 
> security_show_success="NO"
> daily_show_success="NO"

I looked in some of the security scripts and that variable is not used
in the ones I looked into.

But perhaps in script/tools that does the overall calling of the
/etc/periodic/security/* scripts.

--WjW




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