Re: $fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities warning from /etc/daily
Jeff Rizzo <[email protected]>
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On 6/12/13 8:59 AM, Erik E. Fair wrote: > New manual installation (unpacked the tgz files) of NetBSD/sparc64 6.1 for a > system upgrade. Every run of /etc/daily syslogs: > > Jun 11 03:17:15 cesium root: /etc/daily: WARNING: $fetch_pkg_vulnerabilities is not set > properly - see daily.conf(5). > > daily.conf(5) doesn't say what to set it to (not every variable is YES or NO). > security.conf(5), to which daily.conf(5) points, is similarly cryptic. > > Erik <[email protected]> These days (and perhaps this is where a purported doc problem might be surfacing), it is generally recommended to use etcupdate(8) after unpacking sets, to merge changes to /etc. This would have gotten you the new defaults. Something like: etcupdate -s /path/to/etc.tgz -s /path/to/xetc.tgz ...and follow the prompts. etcupdate also invokes postinstall(8). +j