pastebin.com/syPVp0Bb - did I forget anything critical?

i think that should be enough

thanks.

I'm still going to wait until tomorrow morning to send it, just in case I think of something more :)

thanks for the assist today, it is much appreciated!

... and email sent.

Curl 8.18 is out with several small CVE fixes.

There we go...

now if only rsyslog would fix their bugs...

didn't someone recently claim they ported syslog-ng? :)

there's a buffer overflow (though it's unclear that it's exploitable.. basically in a corner case, it'll write 1 byte past the end of the buffer, which makes libumem unhappy)

it's on the heap and not the stack

at least

jbk, hopefully that email is what you need to prod Gordon. Let me know if you don't see it. I haven't posted to that list before so I'm just presuming I can.

i didn't see it

are you joined to the list?

hmm. It didn't bounce.

if not, i think it gets held for moderation

(thought not 100% sure, I don't admin them, so not sure how they're configured)

probably not. I'm on omnios-dsicuss but IIRC I never subscribed to illumos-discuss.

though presumably if it is, there's probably someone in here that can release it

I'm on way too many mailing lists so I tend to shy away from subscribing to more.

the joys of being an allarounder.

Hmm. Does illumos ignore crontabs in /etc/cron.d? I was hoping I could have ansible manage some crontab entries without having to mess with scripts to submit jobs.

(I ask because it seems to be ignoring the test crontab I dropped in there.)

unfortunately, I think /etc/cron.d has that name because /etc/cron was a binary once

so it's not the cron.d you expect, it's just a directory for cron

:(

Is there an official and suggested way of doing what I'm talking about or do I need to write stuff to shove things into root's crontab?

(looks like /etc/cron is still a binary...)

I was really hoping not to 'polute' root's crontab but I guess I can use ansible.builtin.cron to manage this stuff. I just hate messing with distribution stuff like that.

(and it doesn't include comments saying *why* something is there.)

I think your only option is probably doing it the old way :\

though filing a bug to make it not suck would be good too :)

am I failing again or is there really no ticket for this already in bugs.illumos.org?

ah cool, there is a way to add a comment to the line ansible.builtin.cron writes.

→ FEATURE 17811: RFE: support for /etc/cron.d/specific_support_file (New)

hopefully that makes sense.

ION, is there anyone here who can approve the email I sent to illumos-discuss (presumint it's stuck in moderation and not just lost in the void)?

presuming

i have a branch where i started adding something similar to the smf based scheduling bits in solaris 11.4 (since they seem like they'd be useful)

can't remember what they call it

IIRC, I think I got most of the smf bits, but just need to write the actual restarter/bits to run things

periodic & scheduled services (depending on whether they are run every X hours/minutes/etc or run at a given time)

yeah

sigh, the migration to the new blog system in November lost the authors of posts by previous employees, like blogs.oracle.com/solaris/periodic-and-scheduled-services-with-smf

cron jobs with dependencies, rather than remembering everything to pgrep for, sounds lovely