Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-25 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Ok, I'm going to start doing a bit of work on this so as to enable the periodic output to be customised I'll post my changes later for ppl that maybe interested (these changes will still be useful for myself anyway) I'll see if I can put all your suggestions in, thanks for the feedback.

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-25 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Ok, I'm going to start doing a bit of work on this so as to enable the periodic output to be customised I'll post my changes later for ppl that maybe interested (these changes will still be useful for myself anyway) I'll see if I can put all your suggestions in, thanks for the feedback. Cillian

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-24 Thread Jon Povey
Duncan Barclay wrote: On 23-Aug-99 Cillian Sharkey wrote: yes perhaps an /etc/periodic.conf would be good, to control the level of verbosity and/or set options for each script ? I've hacked periodic here so that the scripts can be turned off with knobs in a periodic.conf file. This

proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Hi, Currently, the reports that are generated and emailed to root are fine in what they do. however, a lot of the time there is actaully nothing of interest in these reports if nothing has gone wrong on the system etc. Basically I only want to know about the changes that have happened. This

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:59:29 +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Ideas / Comments / Suggestions ? Diffs ? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Keeping records would be handy alright..but cutting out all the "everything is ok" msgs would reduce reading time..having an option for full report OR just the important results should satisfy everyone.. What I do run things through a filter that

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:59 AM +0100 8/23/99, Cillian Sharkey wrote: * if there are no passwd/group diffs found, don't print anything out (not even the header). Same for setuid etc. diffs. I have one change to one of the scripts, the one checking for mail spool files. I changed it to recognize the spool file

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread James E. Housley
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I think this would need to be "knob-ized". I will ignore these status reports for some time, and then some event comes up where I am interested in reviewing all of them. If a partition goes over 90%, for instance, I will want to know if it's been growing 1% a

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 23-Aug-99 Cillian Sharkey wrote: yes perhaps an /etc/periodic.conf would be good, to control the level of verbosity and/or set options for each script ? I've hacked periodic here so that the scripts can be turned off with knobs in a periodic.conf file. This would simplify customizing new

proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Hi, Currently, the reports that are generated and emailed to root are fine in what they do. however, a lot of the time there is actaully nothing of interest in these reports if nothing has gone wrong on the system etc. Basically I only want to know about the changes that have happened. This would

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:59:29 +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Ideas / Comments / Suggestions ? Diffs ? :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Ideas / Comments / Suggestions ? ^ ^^^ Well ? Diffs ? I haven't actually done any work on this (yet) but I might see what I can hack together.. ;) Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:18:40 +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: I haven't actually done any work on this (yet) but I might see what I can hack together.. The reason I suggest that you provide diffs first is that it's difficult to comment on your proposal without

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Mon 1999-08-23 (09:59), Cillian Sharkey wrote: and the same for all the other tests..basically if there's nothing to report don't print anything (not even the header) otherwise print the header and the results.. Ideas / Comments / Suggestions ? I have changes to this effect active on a

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Mike Pritchard
Currently, the reports that are generated and emailed to root are fine in what they do. however, a lot of the time there is actaully nothing of interest in these reports if nothing has gone wrong on the system etc. Basically I only want to know about the changes that have happened. This would

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Make sure they always generate some output so that a message does get mailed. On more than once occasion I noticed that one of my boxes keeled over or the network broke when I didn't get my expected daily output from that machine. My proposal would only *cut down* on all the white space,

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Malone
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 09:59:29AM +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: * if there are no passwd/group diffs found, don't print anything out (not even the header). Same for setuid etc. diffs. * For the 'df' status, only report filesystems that are over a certain capacity (95% or only xxMb

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Cillian Sharkey
This may not be a good idea. I often check daily reports to see if a disk has suddenly filled or had been gradually filling over a long period of time - you wouldn't be able to get this info if you print stuff selectively. in the case of df, one could set whether you want full df status OR

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread David Scheidt
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Keeping records would be handy alright..but cutting out all the everything is ok msgs would reduce reading time..having an option for full report OR just the important results should satisfy everyone.. What I do run things through a filter that

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:59 AM +0100 8/23/99, Cillian Sharkey wrote: * if there are no passwd/group diffs found, don't print anything out (not even the header). Same for setuid etc. diffs. I have one change to one of the scripts, the one checking for mail spool files. I changed it to recognize the spool file

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread James E. Housley
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I think this would need to be knob-ized. I will ignore these status reports for some time, and then some event comes up where I am interested in reviewing all of them. If a partition goes over 90%, for instance, I will want to know if it's been growing 1% a week

Re: proposed change for /etc/periodic/* scripts

1999-08-23 Thread Duncan Barclay
On 23-Aug-99 Cillian Sharkey wrote: yes perhaps an /etc/periodic.conf would be good, to control the level of verbosity and/or set options for each script ? I've hacked periodic here so that the scripts can be turned off with knobs in a periodic.conf file. This would simplify customizing new