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Markup polishing.
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
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--- a/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ which itself may be overridden by the
.Pa /etc/periodic.conf.local
file.
.Pp
+The
.Nm
+file
is actually sourced as a shell script from each of the periodic scripts
and is intended to simply provide default configuration variables.
.Pp
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ This list is always prefixed with
and is only used when an argument to
.Xr periodic 8
is not an absolute directory name.
-.It Va dir Ns No _output
+.It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _output
.Pq Vt path No or Vt list
What to do with the output of the scripts executed from
the directory
@@ -76,16 +78,16 @@ For an unattended machine, suitable values for
and
.Va monthly_output
might be
-.Dq /var/log/daily.log ,
-.Dq /var/log/weekly.log ,
+.Dq Li /var/log/daily.log ,
+.Dq Li /var/log/weekly.log ,
and
-.Dq /var/log/monthly.log
+.Dq Li /var/log/monthly.log
respectively, as
.Xr newsyslog 8
will rotate these files (if they exists) at the appropriate times.
-.It Va dir Ns No _show_success
-.It Va dir Ns No _show_info
-.It Va dir Ns No _show_badconfig
+.It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_success
+.It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_info
+.It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_badconfig
.Pq Vt bool
These variables control whether
.Xr periodic 8
@@ -96,36 +98,36 @@ is the base directory name in which each script resides).
If the return code of a script is
.Sq 0
and
-.Va dir Ns No _show_success
+.Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_success
is set to
-.Dq NO ,
+.Dq Li NO ,
.Xr periodic 8
will mask the script's output.
If the return code of a script is
.Sq 1
and
-.Va dir Ns No _show_info
+.Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_info
is set to
-.Dq NO ,
+.Dq Li NO ,
.Xr periodic 8
will mask the script's output.
If the return code of a script is
.Sq 2
and
-.Va dir Ns No _show_badconfig
+.Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_badconfig
is set to
-.Dq NO ,
+.Dq Li NO ,
.Xr periodic 8
will mask the script's output.
If these variables are set to neither
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
nor
-.Dq NO ,
+.Dq Li NO ,
they default to
-.Dq YES ,
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES ,
+.Dq Li YES
and
-.Dq NO
+.Dq Li NO
respectively.
.Pp
Refer to the
@@ -139,7 +141,7 @@ The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.It Va daily_clean_disks_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to remove all files matching
.Va daily_clean_disks_files
daily.
@@ -152,25 +154,25 @@ Wild cards are permitted.
When
.Va daily_clean_disks_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES ,
+.Dq Li YES ,
this must also be set to the number of days old that a file's access
and modification times must be before it is deleted.
.It Va daily_clean_disks_verbose
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Va daily_clean_tmps_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to clear temporary directories daily.
.It Va daily_clean_tmps_dirs
.Pq Vt str
Set to the list of directories to clear if
.Va daily_clean_tmps_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
.It Va daily_clean_tmps_days
.Pq Vt num
When
@@ -182,17 +184,17 @@ and modification times must be before it is deleted.
Set to the list of files that should not be deleted when
.Va daily_clean_tmps_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
Wild card characters are permitted.
.It Va daily_clean_tmps_verbose
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Va daily_clean_preserve_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you wish to remove old files from
.Pa /var/preserve .
.It Va daily_clean_preserve_days
@@ -202,12 +204,12 @@ they are deleted.
.It Va daily_clean_preserve_verbose
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Va daily_clean_msgs_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you wish old system messages to be purged.
.It Va daily_clean_msgs_days
.Pq Vt num
@@ -219,7 +221,7 @@ default is used.
.It Va daily_clean_rwho_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you wish old files in
.Pa /var/who
to be purged.
@@ -230,12 +232,12 @@ they are deleted.
.It Va daily_clean_rwho_verbose
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Va daily_clean_hoststat_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to run
.Nm sendmail Fl bH
to automatically purge stale entries from
@@ -249,7 +251,7 @@ as configured in
.It Va daily_backup_passwd_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the
.Pa /etc/master.passwd
and
@@ -263,21 +265,21 @@ file.
.It Va daily_backup_aliases_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the
.Pa /etc/mail/aliases
file backed up and modifications to be displayed in your daily output.
.It Va daily_calendar_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Nm calendar Fl a
daily.
.It Va daily_accounting_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to rotate your daily accounting files.
No rotations are necessary unless
.Va accounting_enable
@@ -286,7 +288,7 @@ is enabled in
.It Va daily_accounting_compress
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want your daily accounting files to be compressed using
.Xr gzip 1 .
.It Va daily_accounting_save
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ When
is set, this may also be set to the number of daily accounting files that are
to be saved.
The default is
-.Dq 3 .
+.Dq Li 3 .
.It Va daily_accounting_flags
.Pq Vt str
Set to the arguments to pass to the
@@ -306,19 +308,19 @@ utility (in addition to
when
.Va daily_accounting_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
The default is
.Fl q .
.It Va daily_news_expire_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/news.expire .
.It Va daily_status_disks_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Xr df 1
(with the arguments supplied in
@@ -332,62 +334,62 @@ Set to the arguments for the
utility when
.Va daily_status_disks_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
.It Va daily_status_ata_raid_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
-.Nm atacontrol status
+.Nm atacontrol Cm status
on your
.Xr ataraid 4
arrays.
.It Va daily_status_gmirror_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
-.Nm gmirror status
+.Nm gmirror Cm status
on your
.Xr gmirror 8
devices.
.It Va daily_status_graid3_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
-.Nm graid3 status
+.Nm graid3 Cm status
on your
.Xr graid3 8
devices.
.It Va daily_status_gstripe_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
-.Nm gstripe status
+.Nm gstripe Cm status
on your
.Xr gstripe 8
devices.
.It Va daily_status_gconcat_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
-.Nm gconcat status
+.Nm gconcat Cm status
on your
.Xr gconcat 8
devices.
.It Va daily_status_network_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Nm netstat Fl i .
.It Va daily_status_network_usedns
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Xr netstat 1
without the
@@ -396,7 +398,7 @@ option (to do DNS lookups).
.It Va daily_status_rwho_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Xr uptime 1
(or
@@ -404,41 +406,41 @@ if you want to run
if
.Va rwhod_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf ) .
.It Va daily_status_mailq_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Xr mailq 1 .
.It Va daily_status_mailq_shorten
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to shorten the
.Xr mailq 1
output when
.Va daily_status_mailq_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
.It Va daily_status_include_submit_mailq
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you also want to run
.Xr mailq 1
on the submit mail queue when
.Va daily_status_mailq_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
This may not work with MTAs other than
.Xr sendmail 8 .
.It Va daily_status_security_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run the security check.
The security check is another set of
.Xr periodic 8
@@ -453,7 +455,7 @@ manual page for more information.
.It Va daily_status_security_inline
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the security check output inline.
The default is to either mail or log the output according to the value of
.Va daily_status_security_output .
@@ -462,7 +464,7 @@ The default is to either mail or log the output according to the value of
Where to send the output of the security check if
.Va daily_status_security_inline
is set to
-.Dq NO .
+.Dq Li NO .
This variable behaves in the same way as the
.Va *_output
variables above, namely it can be set either to one or more email addresses
@@ -477,18 +479,18 @@ The default is
.It Va daily_status_security_chksetuid_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to compare the modes and modification times of setuid executables with
the previous day's values.
.It Va daily_status_security_chkmounts_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to check for changes mounted file systems to the previous day's values.
.It Va daily_status_security_noamd
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to ignore
.Xr amd 8
mounts when comparing against yesterday's file system mounts in the
@@ -497,63 +499,63 @@ check.
.It Va daily_status_security_chkuid0_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to check
.Pa /etc/master.passwd
-for accounts with uid 0.
+for accounts with UID 0.
.It Va daily_status_security_passwdless_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to check
.Pa /etc/master.passwd
for accounts with empty passwords.
.It Va daily_status_security_ipfwdenied_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to show log entries for packets denied by
.Xr ipfw 8
since yesterday's check.
.It Va daily_status_security_ipfdenied_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to show log entries for packets denied by
.Xr ipf 8
since yesterday's check.
.It Va daily_status_security_pfdenied_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to show log entries for packets denied by
.Xr pf 4
since yesterday's check.
.It Va daily_status_security_ipfwlimit_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to display
.Xr ipfw 8
rules that have reached their verbosity limit.
.It Va daily_status_security_kernelmsg_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to show new
.Xr dmesg 8
entries since yesterday's check.
.It Va daily_status_security_loginfail_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to display failed logins from
.Pa /var/log/messages
in the previous day.
.It Va daily_status_security_tcpwrap_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
to display connections denied by tcpwrappers (see
.Xr hosts_access 5 )
from
@@ -562,7 +564,7 @@ during the previous day.
.It Va daily_status_mail_rejects_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to summarise mail rejections logged to
.Pa /var/log/maillog
for the previous day.
@@ -573,28 +575,28 @@ for yesterday's mail rejects.
.It Va daily_status_named_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to summarise denied zone transfers (AXFR and IXFR)
for the previous day.
.It Va daily_status_named_usedns
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to enable reverse DNS lookups.
.It Va daily_queuerun_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to manually run the mail queue at least once a day.
.It Va daily_submit_queuerun
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you also want to manually run the submit mail queue at least once a day
when
.Va daily_queuerun_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES .
+.Dq Li YES .
.It Va daily_local
.Pq Vt str
Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other
@@ -608,7 +610,7 @@ The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.It Va weekly_clean_kvmdb_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to purge old
.Pa /var/db/kvm_*.db
files.
@@ -620,25 +622,25 @@ before being deleted.
.It Va weekly_clean_kvmdb_verbose
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your weekly output.
.It Va weekly_locate_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb .
This script is run using
.Nm nice Fl 5
as user
-.An nobody ,
+.Dq Li nobody ,
and generates the table used by the
.Xr locate 1
command.
.It Va weekly_whatis_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local .
This script regenerates the database used by the
@@ -647,7 +649,7 @@ command.
.It Va weekly_catman_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/catman.local .
This script processes all out of date manual pages, speeding up the
@@ -656,7 +658,7 @@ command at the expense of disk space.
.It Va weekly_noid_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to locate orphaned files on the system.
An orphaned file is one with an invalid owner or group.
.It Va weekly_noid_dirs
@@ -667,26 +669,28 @@ This would usually be set to
.It Va weekly_status_pkg_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to use
.Xr pkg_version 1
to list installed packages which are out of date.
.It Va pkg_version
-.Pq Vt string
+.Pq Vt str
When
.Va weekly_status_pkg_enable
is set to
-.Dq YES ,
+.Dq Li YES ,
this variable specifies the program that is used to determine the out of
date packages.
If unset, the
.Xr pkg_version 1
program is used.
As an example, this variable might be set to
-.Dq portversion
-if the portupgrade port has been installed.
+.Dq Li portversion
+if the
+.Pa ports/sysutils/portupgrade
+port has been installed.
.It Va pkg_version_index
-.Pq Vt string
+.Pq Vt str
This variable specifies the
.Pa INDEX
file from
@@ -725,7 +729,7 @@ The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.It Va monthly_accounting_enable
.Pq Vt bool
Set to
-.Dq YES
+.Dq Li YES
if you want to do login accounting using the
.Xr ac 8
command.
@@ -736,7 +740,7 @@ monthly scripts.
All scripts must be absolute path names.
.El
.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
+.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/defaults/periodic.conf"
.It Pa /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
The default configuration file.
This file contains all default variables and values.
@@ -772,4 +776,4 @@ The
file appeared in
.Fx 4.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
-.An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org .
+.An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org
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