periodic

I have a completely idle desktop system running 14.1p5 which is exhibiting serious I/O and performance problems due entirely to a periodic security job. [root@vhost01 ~ (master)]# freebsd-version -kru 14.1-RELEASE-p5 14.1-RELEASE-p5 14.1-RELEASE-p5 [root@vhost01 ~ (master)]# top -m io last...

tldr; on a heavily loaded system the daily running of neggrpperm by periodic on multiple jails generated excessive disc i/o and brought the host system to a crawl. Disabling neggrpperm on the jails and restricting its run on the host to monthly resolved the issue. OP Recently (the last two...

Hello, I am running two freebsd servers. One shared with friends, one personal. On each I have half a dozen of jails running for different services. Until now, I never paid attention to periodic scripts and their emails. (I am still new and discovering freebsd.) I have set aliases on my most...

In /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, there's this part about periodic ZFS scrubs: # 800.scrub-zfs daily_scrub_zfs_enable="NO" daily_scrub_zfs_pools="" # empty string selects all pools daily_scrub_zfs_default_threshold="35" # days between scrubs...

In /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, there's this part about daily ZFS backups: # 223.backup-zfs daily_backup_zfs_enable="NO" # Backup output from zpool/zfs list daily_backup_zfs_props_enable="NO" # Backup zpool/zfs filesystem properties...

pkgaudit_check is wrongly saying there's new versions for py39-joblib and py39-OWSLib and displays the 'new' version number multiple times. Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... Fetching packagesite.pkg: .......... done Processing entries: .......... done FreeBSD repository update completed...

I ran across this while investigating a different problem: [root@vhost06 ~ (master)]# ps -auwx -O jid -d | grep 'USER\|periodic' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND PID JID TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 6623 0.0 0.0 10684...

1) Could someone explain why periodic daily/weekly/monthly commands set in /etc/crontab will ignore settings: MAILTO="emailoutside@somedomain.com" or MAILTO="" Other tasks are good to follow what crontab(5) says, but periodic will not and always send emails to the owner (i.e. root from "who"...

I’m really sorry if this is documented somewhere in the handbook or elsewhere, but in my ignorance I can’t seem to find it. I’ve just installed a FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE VM, and specifically opted not to enable sendmail. In my /var/log/maillog file, I get sendmail related errors at around 3am...

I receive scheduled emails from periodic with the subject line "daily security run output". I cannot find documentation to help interpret each section of the email, e.g. "checking negative group permissions", "checking for uids of 0"(root and toor are listed). Most important to me however, is to...

Hello, I'm running a FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE host with 13 web server jails. Periodic scripts run fine, but they can run for a very long time before returning a result, especially the daily security script: Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: Host system: Database fetched: Wed...

Hello, I've got two servers which were recently upgraded from 9.2 to FreeBSD 10.1 (One was upgrade, second one was clean install due to hardware failure). Before upgrade, I was getting daily emails between 3 and 4am daily, but after upgrade, these emails started to arrive much later (8-9-10am)...