Re: bin/59990: /etc/security: first run mails megabytes of output

["Valery Ushakov via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/59990; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/59990: /etc/security: first run mails megabytes of output
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:01:38 +0300

 > The first time /etc/security runs, it copies essentially all of /etc
 > (and /root and a copy of `ls -l /dev' and various other things) into
 > the mail.
 
 Yes, please, indeed.
 
 > This is not particularly useful, especially parts like the 3 MB
 > /etc/services.  Ideally, it would (quietly) archive the original
 > installation, and only report changes from that in the mail.
 
 It already does the backup part and the diff part, it's the first run,
 when the baseline is empty, that is the problem.
 
 -uwe