From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 05:11:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2B0F37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 05:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from port995.com (port995.com [213.162.97.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4932143FA3 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 05:11:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sansan@cas.port995.com) Received: by port995.com (Port995 Mail, from userid 77) id 14D3614076BA; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:11:00 +0100 (BST) Received: from cas.port995.com (Authenticated SMTP client) by port995.com (Port995 Mail) with ESMTP id 58A0A14076C3 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 13:10:58 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3EE327E4.1040304@cas.port995.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 13:11:16 +0100 From: Santos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030606 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Periodic scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 12:11:08 -0000 Why there is a weekly script that rebuilds the locate database when: >>> WARNING >>> Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk. Is there a way to put dates on the periodic scripts report output for those who redirect the reports to files instead of mail messages? There is no easy way to tell what date a report belongs to. Santos