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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:17:25 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@freebsd-services.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc security 
Message-ID:  <200111271617.fARGHP300987@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>  of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:14:46 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011127101327.10899C-100000@fledge.watson.org> 

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> 
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > > silby> Do you want me to commit this, or should I wait until you get a
> > > silby> chance to test it yourself?
> > > 
> > > It's tested.
> > 
> > It doesn't look like it handles
> > 
> >   daily_status_security_output="user1 user2"
> 
> I wondered about that also, but it looks like we already have some code
> that doesn't correctly handle that scenario: 
> 
>                 case "${daily_status_security_output:=root}" in
>                     /*)
>                         echo "    (output logged separately)"
>                         sh /etc/security -s $args \
>                             >$daily_status_security_output 2>&1;;
>                     *)
>                         echo "    (output mailed separately)"
>                         sh /etc/security $args 2>&1 |
>                             sendmail $daily_status_security_output;;
>                 esac;;
> 
> Semantics involving multiple mail destinations make sense, but not for
> files, so if we tweak the := above, it might be possible to make it all
> make sense.

I don't think I follow.  How do you think the := needs tweaking ?  
The above was intended to deal with single files and multiple email 
addresses and still seems to....

> Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
> robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

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