Restricting Periodic Scripts

2013-02-06 Thread Tim Gustafson
I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files stored on it. But, the daily periodic scripts like /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours iterating through those folders, and I just don't need them to be scanned. I see that I can edit

Re: Restricting Periodic Scripts

2013-02-06 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:26:17 -0800, Tim Gustafson wrote: I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files stored on it. But, the daily periodic scripts like /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours iterating through those folders

Re: Restricting Periodic Scripts

2013-02-06 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/6/13 12:26 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files stored on it. But, the daily periodic scripts like /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours

Re: Restricting Periodic Scripts

2013-02-06 Thread Tim Gustafson
I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files stored on it. But, the daily periodic scripts like /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours iterating through those folders, and I just don't need them to be scanned. I see that I

does anyone care about periodic scripts?

2012-05-07 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Hi all. It seems that patches to periodic scripts have hard time coming into the tree. I personally filed http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/165817 and still there's no move despite change is purely cosmetical and just fixes right way of things. And this is not just one

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent. Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic script that tries to send out

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
Matthew Seaman wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent. Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic

Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, Taking the questions regarding my routing boxes one step further, I have strict rules that allow only certain control and management protocols to communicate on the network. Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-17 Thread Glen Barber
realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent. Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic script that tries to send out email (given a standard install), and/or how to disable this? Or, is there a way to completely

Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

2009-03-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent. Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic script that tries to send out email (given

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-09-01 Thread Jonathan Belson
Jonathan Belson wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. root is specifically exempted from all the masquerading stuff. There's an EXPOSED_USER macro you can use in $(hostname).mc to control that. Ah, that explains it. There doesn't seem to be a way to remove exposed users, but there is a web

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
if you run into any trouble! OK, thanks. After playing with MASQUERADE_AS(), MASQUERADE_DOMAIN() plus a few FEATURES(), I've managed to change the 'From:' address for e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via the cron-ed periodic scripts still don't get through, although

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
:' address for | e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via the | cron-ed periodic scripts still don't get through, although if I run e.g. | 'periodic daily' from the command line, the mail does reach me. | | The only difference I can think of is that cron runs the scripts

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: | | OK, thanks. After playing with MASQUERADE_AS(), MASQUERADE_DOMAIN() | plus a few FEATURES(), I've managed to change the 'From:' address for | e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via the | cron-ed periodic scripts

Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-11 Thread Jonathan Belson
Hiya I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It has now stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the status e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the ISP has upped its anti-spam checks. I see /usr/sbin/periodic itself uses the

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-11 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Belson wrote: | Hiya | | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It | has now | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the | status | e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the

Re: Periodic scripts running twice

2008-08-05 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
RW wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:36 -0500 CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! For a while, I've noticed odd behavior with periodic scripts installed by certain ports (portaudit) as well as ones I've penned myself (corescan), in that they appear to be run twice in succession every

[Solved] Re: Periodic scripts running twice

2008-08-05 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: RW wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:36 -0500 CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! For a while, I've noticed odd behavior with periodic scripts installed by certain ports (portaudit) as well as ones I've penned myself (corescan), in that they appear to be run

Periodic scripts running twice

2008-08-04 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Hi! For a while, I've noticed odd behavior with periodic scripts installed by certain ports (portaudit) as well as ones I've penned myself (corescan), in that they appear to be run twice in succession every time. Base system scripts, and some add-on scripts (freshclam) are run only once

Re: Periodic scripts running twice

2008-08-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:21:36 -0500 CyberLeo Kitsana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! For a while, I've noticed odd behavior with periodic scripts installed by certain ports (portaudit) as well as ones I've penned myself (corescan), in that they appear to be run twice in succession every time

disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread Warner Lambert
Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me hundreds of lines of output even if nothings happening. Am I just deleting all

Re: disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Warner Lambert wrote: Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me hundreds of lines of output even if nothings happening. Am I

Re: disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread D Hill
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 at 22:26 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Warner Lambert wrote: Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails

Re: disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:18:12 -0400 Warner Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me

Re: periodic scripts execution order

2005-11-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Russell Cloran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question regarding the execution order of periodic scripts. In the default configuration, scripts in /etc/periodic/*/ are executed before /usr/local/etc/periodic/*/, regardless of numbering. Surely the sensible thing to do would

periodic scripts execution order

2005-11-02 Thread Russell Cloran
Hi, I have a question regarding the execution order of periodic scripts. In the default configuration, scripts in /etc/periodic/*/ are executed before /usr/local/etc/periodic/*/, regardless of numbering. Surely the sensible thing to do would be to execute scripts in an order based

custom periodic scripts

2005-01-28 Thread Xian
How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it. -- /Xian We can't solve problems by using the same kind of

Re: custom periodic scripts

2005-01-28 Thread Julien Gabel
How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it. Just put an executable script on a tree similar to

Re: custom periodic scripts

2005-01-28 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, January 28, 2005 10:32:35 PM + Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but

Re: custom periodic scripts

2005-01-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Xian wrote: How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it. Well, you could write shell scripts and put them

periodic scripts

2004-09-20 Thread Peter Rosa
Hi all, please what is your opinion and possible repair of following. I have FreeBSD 4.10-REL-p2, cvsup+make world last week. It happened few times in last half-year, that server discontinue sending reports from periodics daily. I run it manually and see ps ax, but the only checks are started

Re: periodic scripts

2004-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:30:05AM +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.10-REL-p2, cvsup+make world last week. It happened few times in last half-year, that server discontinue sending reports from periodics daily. I run it manually and see ps ax, but the only checks are started are those

Periodic Scripts - Configuration problem?

2003-12-02 Thread Jack.W.Parks
works fine for all users, this just affects the periodic scripts. I have tried grep'ing for the incorrect hostname in the /etc/periodic/blah... But haven't found anything. skrapnode# uname -a FreeBSD skrapnode.skrap.net 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #0: Sun Nov 23 00:01:14 CST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Periodic Scripts - Configuration problem?

2003-12-02 Thread Steve Bertrand
the mail delivery failures make it to my inbox. Mail works fine for all users, this just affects the periodic scripts. Do you have anything still funky in your /etc/mail/aliases or other files that may have influence on the flow of mail? Steve I have tried grep'ing for the incorrect

[Fwd: Re: Periodic Scripts - Configuration problem?]

2003-12-02 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
it to my inbox. Mail works fine for all users, this just affects the periodic scripts. I have tried grep'ing for the incorrect hostname in the /etc/periodic/blah... But haven't found anything. the easiest thing to check right now is the output of hostname. also, i *think* that the periodic

Periodic Scripts

2003-06-07 Thread Luke Kearney
Hi, For reasons that I don't completely understand one of my machines has stopped sending mail to root. I was used to getting the periodic output mailed to me daily and now one of them has stopped. The mail does not appear to be held up anywhere and is not showing up in the queue, so I