weekly periodic security status

Royce Williams royce at tycho.org
Sat Aug 24 04:36:18 UTC 2013


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Darren Pilgrim <
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:

> Thank you for this, but if I may make one suggestion: don't combine all
> the security report settings--keep both daily_* and weekly_*.  This makes
> possible running some security tasks on a daily basis and others on a
> weekly basis.  For example, daily pkg/portaudit checks, but weekly
> filesystem scans.
>

Agreed.  I welcome and would use the weekly option at this level of
granularity, but would like to retain daily for many checks, and so would
not use weekly if was an all-or-nothing option.

Royce


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