Re: 100.chksetuid and PR 178005

Michael Grimm <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.current
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/01/2026 15:08, Michael Grimm wrote:

> > I found a 13 year old PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178005 from ngie@ about unnecessary noise in daily security mails whenever an installworld has been run. Nowadays with pkgbase being used daily|frequently this issue might be even more pressing.
> > 
> > I do have an alternative 100.chksetuid running at my site that more or less does what that PR is all about.
> > 
> > Questions (because I never done that before):
> > 
> > #) Should I file a patch to this PR?
> > #) Or should I open a new PR?
> > #) And: would that be of interest at all?

> I think the patch to the original PR is the right way to go. But 
> periodic looks like unwanted child. It may take 15 years to have some 
> patches accepted. (PR 86388)

> Yes. That's kinda true. But maybe we need more targeted bug busting / hackathons?

FTR: I have just uploaded my patch to https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178005

Regards,
Michael
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