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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:56:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Alan Batie <alan@agora.rdrop.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/48443: /usr/sbin/periodic executes too many files
Message-ID:  <200302182156.h1ILuBLt066189@agora.rdrop.com>

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>Number:         48443
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /usr/sbin/periodic executes too many files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 18 14:00:26 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alan Batie
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386
>Organization:
RainDrop Laboratories
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD agora.rdrop.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Mon Feb 3 00:57:16 PST 2003 root@agora.rdrop.com:/usr/src/freebsd/src/sys/compile/AGORA i386


>Description:
	I was adding some functionality to the kernel message security
	check, and in the debugging process found that the extra script
	I added was getting executed independently.  Further investigation
	found that /usr/sbin/periodic runs $dir/*.  Since the file
	security_functions already exists in /etc/periodic/security as a
	file to be sourced, rather than executed standalone, this is
	apparently not correct behavior.  I believe the intention is to
	execute $dir/[0-9]*.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Create a file 'xyzzy' in /etc/periodic/security containing

	    echo xyzzy

	then run "/usr/sbin/periodic security"

>Fix:


Index: periodic.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.9.2.8
diff -c -r1.9.2.8 periodic.sh
*** periodic.sh	21 May 2002 03:09:35 -0000	1.9.2.8
--- periodic.sh	18 Feb 2003 21:48:00 -0000
***************
*** 72,78 ****
          processed=0
          for dir in $dirlist
          do
!             for file in $dir/*
              do
                  if [ -x $file -a ! -d $file ]
                  then
--- 72,78 ----
          processed=0
          for dir in $dirlist
          do
!             for file in $dir/[0-9]*
              do
                  if [ -x $file -a ! -d $file ]
                  then

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