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

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

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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: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:13:16 +0300

 On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 19:17:22 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
 
 > Do we even have any mechanism for preventing a long-running
 > /etc/daily or /etc/security from overlapping with the next run?
 
 We don't.  I don't remember the details, but a few years ago I had a
 failure mode that would make daily/security stuck (pmtu mess or
 something that would make fetching pkgsrc vulnerabilities never
 complete, IIRC) and so there would be several daily jobs happily doing
 nothing in parallel.
 
 -uwe