3.5.10 FreeBSD

Q:

How can I stop my FreeBSD system from running the /etc/daily script which mails me every single day, week and month?

A:

Add an editfiles command

          
          
           freebsd::
          
             { /etc/crontab
          
             HashCommentLinesContaining "daily"
             HashCommentLinesContaining "weekly"
             HashCommentLinesContaining "monthly"
             }
     

Q:

Why don't filesystems get mounted in the freebsd version of cfengine?

A:

Cfengine fixes the /etc/fstab file, but has to choose between one of two courses of action when mounting, owing to a bug in the mount command on FreeBSD machines. Cfengine mounts filesystems each time it runs. On all other supported systems this causes no problems,: once a filesystem is mounted it will not be mounted again. Under FreeBSD however, a filesystem gets mounted again each time mount is run, leading to multiple mount information in the mount table. This causes cfengine to warn the filesystem is mounted many times, and could eventually result in a problem for the FreeBSD machine. The policy is therefore to use mount options which do not cause this behaviour, but an unfortunate side-effect is that newly defined filesystems do not get mounted. You can override the mount options if you want to force multiple mounting.