From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 12:48:12 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 6FFFD1065678 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+YN=336cba11@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5AF8FC12 for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2008 12:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+YN=336cba11@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C340423E49B for ; Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:48:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 13:48:08 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080802134808.5d7b3eee@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <69728418-D91B-41C4-B4E0-F3913584AEC4@poughkeepsieschools.org> References: <88DEC8CC-1BBC-4AAA-AECF-0F8736043212@poughkeepsieschools.org> <20080802131909.07ccddab@gumby.homeunix.com.> <69728418-D91B-41C4-B4E0-F3913584AEC4@poughkeepsieschools.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: get periodic to not scan a partition 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: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:48:12 -0000 On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:30:20 -0400 "B. Cook" wrote: > > On Aug 2, 2008, at 8:19 AM, RW wrote: > > > On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 06:22:17 -0400 > > "B. Cook" 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. In that case I'd try disabling the search with daily_status_security_chksetuid_enable=no in periodic.conf, and possibly putting a modified version in /usr/local/etc/periodic/security.