From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 13 3:28:59 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A0737B401 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:28:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E9F43F5B for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:28:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0DBSp1n008088 for ; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:28:51 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0DBSkR9008087 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:28:46 GMT Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:28:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security Report Message-ID: <20030113112846.GB7583@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030113111609.C92084-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030113111609.C92084-100000@freebsd.rf0.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 11:16:50AM +0000, Rus Foster wrote: > Is it my imagination or should FreeBSD automatically make run a cron job > to generate a security report? If so does anyone have the cron line? No, you're not imagining things. See /etc/crontab for the invocation of the periodic(8) script. The security report is generated as part of the daily periodic job. If you aren't receiving the reports, check that a) they aren't piling up in some mail queue somewhere: # mailq -v # mailq -Ac -v or b) that the default settings in /etc/periodic.conf haven't been set to redirect the report output somewhere else. Look for the 'daily_status_security_enable', 'daily_status_security_inline' and 'daily_status_security_output' settings. If you haven't got a /etc/periodic.conf file that's OK, as you'll just end up using the default settings from /etc/defaults/periodic.conf Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message