svn commit: r184265 - head/etc/periodic/security

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Oct 25 12:39:28 PDT 2008


On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:45:40PM +0000, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Sat Oct 25 18:45:40 2008
> New Revision: 184265
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184265
> 
> Log:
>   Sort `mount -p' output by name before checking for any differences.
>   
>   I noticed on a system at home that restarting named(8) causes the
>   /var/named/dev mount to be moved to the bottom of the mount list,
>   because it gets remounted. When I received the daily security email this
>   morning, I was quite amazed to see that the security report listed the
>   differences, while it was nothing out of the ordinary.
>   
>   If we just throw the `mount -p' output through sort(1), we'll only
>   receive notifications about changes to mounts if something has really
>   changed.

Hmm.  I've always found it useful to know that the mount list has
changed, so that I can work out if I did anything to cause it to happen
or not - if not, I have something to worry about.  I want to see this
every time.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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