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Author SHA1 Message Date
jlh
97f176654a Include the calling context in the mail subject, if any.
More concretely, periodic security scripts defaults to being
called from daily ones -- daily context -- so the mail subject
will now be "${HOST} daily security run output" instead of
"{HOST} security run output".

If you switch the period of some security checks to weekly, you
will receive another email "${HOST} weekly security run output".
2013-09-03 13:40:24 +00:00
jlh
30d34af397 Export a PERIODIC environment variable from periodic(8). This will
allow periodic security scripts to know if they have been called in
a daily or a weekly context.
2013-08-25 08:56:09 +00:00
brooks
15a27123c9 Prevent periodic scripts that run longer than the expected period from
starting up before the previous script finishes.  This prevents an
infinite number of them from piling up and slowing a system down.

Since all the refactoring to make this happen required churning the
indenting of most of this file, make the indentation more consistent.

Reviewed by:	simon
MFC after:	1 week
2012-02-12 23:18:05 +00:00
uqs
3960614646 mdoc: order prologue macros consistently by Dd/Dt/Os
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)
2010-04-14 19:08:06 +00:00
gabor
65ffc25171 - The weekly periodic runs occur on Saturday mornings, not on Sunday mornings
PR:		docs/113975
Submitted by:	Marian Cerny <jojo@matfyz.cz>
Reviewed by:	keramida
Approved by:	re (bmah)
2007-09-07 21:54:45 +00:00
delphij
90cc29c58c Stop mentioning /usr/X11R6.
Approved by:	re (hrs)
2007-07-24 06:41:07 +00:00
dwmalone
35e07e1a73 Add an option to make periodic(8) quiet when no output was generated.
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
2007-06-22 10:04:05 +00:00
ru
c05985f13f Sort sections. 2005-01-18 20:02:45 +00:00
ru
6cc4b6c220 Added the EXIT STATUS section where appropriate. 2005-01-17 07:44:44 +00:00
charnier
d2168fe021 The .Nm utility 2002-07-14 14:47:15 +00:00
brian
efcf80dea7 Mention the ``end of output'' for each periodic script.
Submitted by:	David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
PR:		37036
MFC after:	1 week
2002-05-14 01:15:35 +00:00
ru
2cc18c1514 mdoc(7) police: fix markup in revision 1.25. 2001-12-08 16:15:44 +00:00
cjc
ba1e7b8577 Long ago, there was just /etc/daily. Then /etc/security was split out
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
2001-12-07 23:57:39 +00:00
cjc
2726841149 Add a BUGS section noting that the basename of a directory containing
periodic(8) scripts must be useable as a sh(1) variable.

MFC after:	2 days
2001-11-28 21:43:53 +00:00
ru
acea47aa1e mdoc(7) police: Fix markup. 2001-11-20 12:38:18 +00:00
ru
6787c701a8 mdoc(7) police: expand plain text xrefs. 2001-08-08 11:48:28 +00:00
dd
911ca14c87 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:06:20 +00:00
ru
0d5f9334cf mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call. 2001-07-10 15:12:08 +00:00
ru
2d1b95a96f mdoc(7) police: normalize .Nd. 2001-04-18 15:54:10 +00:00
dd
02c02ffeef Grammar police: "its", not "it's", is the possessive form of "it". 2001-04-15 19:53:47 +00:00
ru
ef2dbc1fb0 beforeinstall -> SCRIPTS. 2001-04-07 11:21:35 +00:00
ru
afd506414e - Backout botched attempt to introduce MANSECT feature.
- MAN[1-9] -> MAN.
2001-03-26 14:42:20 +00:00
ru
1476a16d46 mdoc(7) police: fixed broken references. 2001-01-16 11:52:00 +00:00
ru
c23c39b3a4 mdoc(7) police: removed history info from the .Os FreeBSD call. 2000-12-14 11:52:05 +00:00
ru
12c490a119 mdoc(7) police: use canonical form of .Dd macro. 2000-12-11 15:57:16 +00:00
kris
05c00631fc Properly fix the temporary file creation in the case of multiple
command-line arguments.

Noticed by:	dynamo <dynamo@ime.net>
2000-11-26 03:37:34 +00:00
ru
71e2293ad4 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 20:10:44 +00:00
kris
b721949a03 Don't use a trivially predictable temporary filename and keep recreating
it again and again, practically begging the Bad Man to insert his symlink
underneath it and send us down the path to oblivion.

Noticed by:	David Lary <dlary@secureworks.net>
2000-11-02 06:33:57 +00:00
brian
67b1b035aa Fix a typo
Spotted by: Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
2000-09-20 19:59:44 +00:00
brian
fe1b76bd44 Put temporary output in ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}
If $<basedir>_output is not set, don't redirect output

PR:	21395
2000-09-19 22:15:00 +00:00
brian
849996ccf5 Don't clobber $? before using it.
Submitted by:	James Barkley <jbarkley@wgate.com>
2000-09-19 21:46:54 +00:00
brian
b78291c4bc Fix situations where none of the scripts executed produce output,
so that we don't see any more ``null message body, hope that's
ok'' messages.

We now see something like ``No output from the 3 files processed''.

Lump all output for a given periodic argument together so that
people with /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily (for example) will
get the output of those jobs together with the normal daily run
rather than getting a second email.

Prompted by: ben
2000-09-16 21:59:34 +00:00
brian
4484d23ba7 Another overhaul of the periodic stuff.
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
2000-09-14 17:19:15 +00:00
brian
567e3fdcca Introduce /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, similar in concept to rc.conf.
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
2000-06-23 01:18:31 +00:00
nbm
05d8702a73 Update periodic to use the function source_rc_confs that
/etc/defaults/rc.conf now exports.
2000-04-27 17:11:03 +00:00
cpiazza
9fa69f5f29 export host after setting it.
This is needed so passwd diffs show the hostname instead of
" passwd diffs:"

PR:		17651
Submitted by:	Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
2000-03-29 07:05:29 +00:00
peter
efabb9ccb1 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
ghelmer
00363a23a8 local_cron -> local_periodic
PR:		docs/11253
1999-04-23 18:26:55 +00:00
jkh
e72aab80b6 Look in correct rc.conf file.
Submitted by:	Kevin Street <street@iname.com
1999-02-14 20:06:02 +00:00
billf
a81a07d54f Make periodic(8) and the security mailings reflect the full FQDN, as opposed
to a hostname. This will help those who keep a cluster of machines all with
the same hostname but different domain names.

PR:		bin/9091
Submitted By:	Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi>
No Response From: -current mailing list
1999-01-01 17:37:33 +00:00
hoek
a5b622c82e Directories aren't executable.
Submitted by:	Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@software-munitions.com>
		(misc/9147)
1998-12-29 22:48:54 +00:00
hoek
03de2de976 Misplaced comma. 1998-12-29 22:45:15 +00:00
charnier
6e321f37d4 .Sh AUTHOR -> .Sh AUTHORS. Use .An/.Aq. 1998-03-23 08:31:20 +00:00
wosch
8ee659dd96 Sort cross refereces in section SEE ALSO. 1997-09-29 19:11:55 +00:00
pst
481ffda850 Change local_cron to local_periodic.
Submitted by:	bde
1997-08-19 16:49:35 +00:00
pst
fa45a51529 Use /etc/periodic 1997-08-16 17:08:35 +00:00
ache
9d8aeece34 Fix mdoc directives 1997-08-13 16:27:59 +00:00
pst
30f274935d Back out the fancy directory sorting, it's more pain that its worth,
and it's there in the CVS repository in case someone things that this
idea is superkeen.
1997-08-13 06:23:54 +00:00
pst
717eb2339d Incorporate some ideas that came up during discussion with msmith. 1997-08-13 06:02:18 +00:00
pst
3c7e85f93c Initial import of periodic executable control program. 1997-08-12 17:48:49 +00:00