https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282614
Bug ID: 282614
Summary: ${LOCALBASE}/etc/periodic.conf is ignored
Product: Base System
Version: 14.2-STABLE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: conf
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Fresh install from
FreeBSD-14.2-PRERELEASE-amd64-20241031-25ad37c9532b-269367-disc1.iso:
toor@t:/ # cd /usr/local
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # mkdir -p etc/periodic/test
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # cat >etc/periodic/test/test <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
if [ -r /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ]; then
. /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
source_periodic_confs
fi
echo "_localbase=\"\${_localbase}\""
echo "periodic_conf_files=\"\${periodic_conf_files}\""
EOF
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # chmod +x etc/periodic/test/test
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # periodic test
_localbase=""
periodic_conf_files="/etc/periodic.conf /etc/periodic.conf.local
/etc/periodic.conf"
toor@t:/usr/local/etc #
${LOCALBASE}/etc/periodic.conf is not read as it is not mentioned in
${periodic_conf_files}. Result is, one cannot define variables for local
periodic scripts in the local periodic.conf but they have to go into the global
/etc/periodic.conf, which isn't desireable and collides with documentation.
We can make it work by tweaking the scope of _localbase (defined by
/usr/sbin/periodic):
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # echo export _localbase >etc/periodic.conf
toor@t:/usr/local/etc # periodic test
_localbase="/usr/local"
periodic_conf_files="/etc/periodic.conf /etc/periodic.conf.local
/usr/local/etc/periodic.conf"
toor@t:/usr/local/etc #
_localbase should be exported from /usr/sbin/periodic?
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