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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:45:56 +0200
From:      Cristian KLEIN <cristi@net.utcluj.ro>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portaudit in periodic
Message-ID:  <474AA3E4.7020807@net.utcluj.ro>
In-Reply-To: <47469D3F.1070207@netfence.it>
References:  <47469D3F.1070207@netfence.it>

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Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm running a dozen boxes (most being 6.2) with portaudit installed and
> I usually get a port vulnerability report in the daily security run.
> 
> On one box, however, portaudit's db won't update automatically. The
> security reports will mention no vulnerability, even when I know they
> are there.
> Running "periodic daily" from a shell does it all for good, so that for
> a few days I'll see the correct warnings.

I used to have problem with cron scripts, because cron uses another PATH then
what the script gets if it's run from the shell. Could you try the following
(assuming sh):

export SHELL=/bin/sh
export PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export HOME=/var/log
periodic daily




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