On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 02:38:15PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:49:58 +0200 > Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I plan to commit the attached patch. This allows the turn the daily > > security checks into weekly checks. You do this by adding the > > following to periodic.conf(5): > > > > daily_status_security_enable=NO > > weekly_status_security_enable=YES > > > > All other $daily_status_security_whatever variables will be renamed to > > $security_status_whatever. The old variable name is supported but > > prints a warning. > > > > All daily_status_security_enable does is control whether the security > scripts are run from daily, but security is a periodic dirctory in its > own right. > > You can simply set daily_status_security_enable=NO and put a > separate security entry in crontab (or anacrontab). You can also > symlink the lightweight security scripts in a separate directory and > run those on all, or some, of the days you don't run the full security > pass. > > In short the current support is more powerful and flexible than > anything suggested in this thread so far.
Nothing of what you say is wrong, but culturally I think it is more common to configure things with variable assignments in configuration files a-la rc.conf(5), rather than creating directories and symlinks. I don't say one or the other is better, it is just a matter of tradition. -- Jeremie Le Hen Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons. They forgot to mention Morons. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
