Re: getting firewall logs via /etc/periodic/daily ?

[Matthew Seaman]

Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

I'd like to receive the firewall logs together
with the usual /etc/periodic/daily email.
What's the easiest/safest way to achieve this?

Shall I add my own script under /etc/periodic/daily?
Shall I modify an existing script, e.g. 310.accounting?

Sure -- you can add your own scripts to the periodic jobs.  For things that


If you decide to adapt one of the system scripts to do what you want, it's
best to copy it to /usr/local/periodic/whatever/ and change the prefix of the
configuration variables inside it.  When writing a periodic script, you
generally want the following boilerplate at the top of the file:

# If there is a global system configuration file, suck it in.
#
if [ -r /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ]
then
   . /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
   source_periodic_confs
fi

plus you should take care to set the return code of the script carefully:
0 means 'everything OK', 1 means 'you might want to look at this output',
2 means 'oops, you configured the script wrong' and >2 means 'it's all gone
a bit pear shaped'.  periodic(8) has more detail.

        Cheers,


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aren't part of the base system, the usual place is /usr/local/etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly,security} Matthew

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