Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 18:23:34 +0930 (CST) From: Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: lpruf@stud.ee.ethz.ch Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/security -- FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <9905270853.AA20793@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9905271020530.3785-100000@tardis-a2.ee.ethz.ch> from Lukas Ruf at "May 27, 99 10:22:09 am"
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> where can I find informations on how to configure this file ? Its a shell script. You can find information about sh by doing 'man sh'. I'm not sure that this will help all that much though if you don't know much about shell scripts. > From where is it run ? crontab ? Ultimately, yes. If you look at etc/crontab you'll see a line like: 0 2 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root The "periodic daily" command will work through the scripts in /etc/periodic/daily, one of which, 450.status-security, runs /etc/security. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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