- Update synopsis to present all available arguments.
- Consistently call the argument specifying an arbitrary directory a
"directory".
- Do not put macros into -width argument to Bl. They do not expand there.
- Stylize command modifiers like "daily" with Cm instead of Pa. While
technically periodic(8) operates on directories with such names, it is
confusing from the perspective of the manual page reader as Pa and Ar are
stylized the same way. Also, I cannot recall a single manual page where
Pa would be used to describe the syntax of command-line arguments.
MFC after: 2 weeks
periodic(8) already handles the security_show_{success,info,badconfig}
variables correctly. However, those variables aren't explicitly set in
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf or anywhere else, which suggests to the user
that they shouldn't be used.
etc/defaults/periodic.conf
Explicitly set defaults for security_show_{success,info,badconfig}
usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.sh
Update usage string
usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.8
Minor man page updates
One thing I'm _not_ doing is recommending setting security_output to
/var/log/security.log or adding that file to /etc/newsyslog.conf, because
periodic(8) would create it with default permissions, usually 644, and
that's probably a bad idea.
Reviewed by: brd
MFC after: 4 weeks
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6477
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
The man page part of the patch is my fault, the changes to the
periodic script is Dominik's.
PR: 88486
Submitted by: Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de>
Reviewed by: brian
Approved by: re
MFC after: 1 month
of /etc/daily. Some time later, /etc/daily became a set of periodic(8)
scripts. Now, this evolution continues, and /etc/security has been
broken into periodic(8) scripts to make local customization easier and
more maintainable.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: ru
All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted
by periodic(8). Output may be masked based on variable values in
periodic.conf.
It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses,
or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in
newsyslog.conf.
The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default
behaviour of periodic(8).
PR: 21250
The only change in the default functionality should be that
the output reports are slightly more verbose WRT files deleted.
Not objected to by: freebsd-arch
