From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 00:58:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98B3106564A for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:58:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kareemy@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f19.google.com (mail-bw0-f19.google.com [209.85.218.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269E28FC19 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:58:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kareemy@gmail.com) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so4381272bwz.19 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:58:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=XgdoAh6Mi1dnbe/K8l9ChU/C39jn+AdaF5gBTYONLZI=; b=udmW3ff+2tVIAUN4S6v5J8lRKp1FOxeXvjZ2eYPpo9JbLnYoJ2uym0r13xsz7DjKRy +KABPp9YYYy8cCUwvFqCfLQdb79ZaWLKz6QkNBc9LX3/A600IFoYRXtAi7LQ0v1BBeeV h+x2e4Mzye7X0AX6ZPXopZqAUTF/kz+J7BqGQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=UqyhSos7OdSVOB2Zo1InKYgqupJ+KTasGzUF2BY5XSRqW8yA1CecBz3h0062O8Elcp GMhjZHuwMHtgASXLXqf3n4ZDEZVc84po7ODbdN+8XMjIZ4+CS+g5AyyT7L73PA0dlbE2 +PiiiIAl3SN7FaQzvAv35iFs3/ojU67r/4sFk= Received: by 10.103.217.7 with SMTP id u7mr1789182muq.73.1229821128991; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.228.12 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:58:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:58:48 -0600 From: kareemy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Subject: Re: portaudit and periodic X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:58:50 -0000 I believe I am incorrect. I checked further and it looks like $daily_status_security_portaudit_enable defaults to YES in the portaudit script so it should run fine. Everything seems to be working. I don't know why I thought it wasn't running before. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks. On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:42 PM, kareemy wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 7-RELEASE. I installed portaudit. The FreeBSD > handbook stated that during the install process, the configuration > files for periodic will be updated, permitting portaudit output in the > daily security runs. > > portaudit was not run in my daily security runs. There is no mention > of portaudit in /etc/periodic.conf or /etc/defaults/periodic.conf. I > read /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.portaudit and found that it > references 3 variables: > daily_status_security_portaudit_enable > daily_status_security_portaudit_expiry > daily_status_security_portaudit_user > > I can't find those variables defined anywhere in any periodic.conf > file. I understand I can just manually add > daily_status_security_portaudit_enable="YES" to my periodic.conf and > be good to go. But I am wondering about the discrepancy with the > Freebsd handbook. > > Is the FreeBSD handbook out of date or incorrect in this regard or is > there another reason why portaudit didn't update the periodic config > files? > > Thanks, > Kareem Dana >