From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 22 3:48:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C97A37B402 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:48:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020222114818.KCZB2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org> for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:48:18 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1MBmHd84614 for stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:48:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:48:17 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Periodic-ifying the Daily Security Check Message-ID: <20020222034817.R48401@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now that 4.5-RELEASE is well past, I am considering MFC'ing the new periodic(8) structure for doing the daily security checks. However, I wanted to get an idea from this list if anyone felt this change was too disruptive. The daily, weekly, and monthly change from a single script to periodic(8) took place over a major point change, 2.2.x to 3.x. I don't know if it was just the timing or if it was not changed in 2.2-STABLE to prevent disruption. The change to -CURRENT went off with virtual silence, which I take to mean that everyone liked it (or couldn't care less). Here is a more technical description of what the change means to people tracking a branch, http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=485604+0+archive/2001/freebsd-current/20011209.freebsd-current http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=490114+0+archive/2001/freebsd-current/20011209.freebsd-current Just for the record, silence means to me that you do not have any opposition to the change. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message