weekly periodic security status

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Darren

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> >> On 8/25/2013 7:05 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> >>> And the following variables to control whether you want each check to
> >>> run "daily", "weekly" or directly from "crontab" (the default, backward
> >>> compatible values are shown):
> >>
> >> What do we do if we want to run a check both daily and weekly?
> >
> > I really don't see the point of running some checks weekly when you do
> > daily.  Do you have a particular example in mind?
> 
> On one set of systems, I have a log analyser run as a periodic script. 
>   On a daily run, it grabs and filters logs into a database.  On weekly 
> runs, it does some statistical analysis of the filtered logs in the 
> database.  On monthly runs, it does a larger set of stats and a bit of 
> housekeeping.  The script lives in /usr/local/libexec and is hardlinked 
> into the /usr/local/etc/periodic/ subtree and cases out the value of $0.
> 
> The new framework would let me rely on the environment instead of $0, 
> which, IMO, is more reliable.  I'd need to be able to tell periodic to 
> run that script with the daily, weekly and monthly security runs, though.

If I understand what you say correctly, this should continue to work.

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Jeremie Le Hen

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