Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:30:20 -0400 From: "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: get periodic to not scan a partition Message-ID: <69728418-D91B-41C4-B4E0-F3913584AEC4@poughkeepsieschools.org> In-Reply-To: <20080802131909.07ccddab@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <88DEC8CC-1BBC-4AAA-AECF-0F8736043212@poughkeepsieschools.org> <20080802131909.07ccddab@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, RW wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 > "B. Cook" <bcook@poughkeepsieschools.org> wrote: > >> hello all, >> >> I have a machine doing backups with backuppc (excellent program btw) >> and I have them being stored in /exports >> >> /dev/ad4s1h 57G 31G 21G 60% /exports >> >> /dev/ad4s1h on /exports (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) >> >> it is now almost 6:20 am and periodic has been running since 3:01.. >> and it will complete in another 4 hours.. >> >> root 92866 0.6 0.1 3064 1488 ?? D 3:01AM 1:00.93 >> find / exports -xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm >> -o+x ) ( - perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0 >> >> is there something I can do to get periodic to not look in /exports? > > The above search is looking for setuid binaries, if you mount /exports > as noexec and/or nosuid then it wont get searched. > I will see what happens when I do that.. as I remember it did something to break the building of world and I think port building as well.. this /exports also holds /usr/obj /usr/src and /usr/ports they are symlinks to here. Again from what I remember having nosuid and/or noexec on /usr/obj and/ or /usr/ports was a 'problem' as well..
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