On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Rob Belics <robbel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Rob Belics <robbel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I found an updated vuln.xml in /usr/ports/security/vuxml/ dated today.
> I
> > > will copy that over to /var/db/pkg/ but still question why that file
> was
> > > not updated.
> > >
> >
> > It's not updated by portsnap(8) but pkg-updating(8). Portmaster won't
> > update it either. There's a periodic(8) job that should update it
> > daily at /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit, controlled by
> > daily_status_security_pkgaudit_enable periodic.conf(5) setting that
> > defaults to YES.
> >
> > -Kimmo
> >
>
> Neither periodic.conf have anything in them but the one system I'm having
> trouble with was upgraded from FreeBSD 9.3, perhaps around the date
> vuln.xml now shows.
>
> periodic.conf is always empty by default. The default configuration is in
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf which, like all files in /etc/defaults, should
never be edited. Any changes from the default configuration go in
/etc/periodic.conf.  Since periodic.conf is empty, the 410.pkg-audit script
should be running and the vuln.xml file should be getting updated. But it
is not.
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkober...@gmail.com
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