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Hi, |
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I'm new to Gentoo. I come from FreeBSD. I have to run Gentoo in |
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this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs |
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better on Linux than FreeBSD. |
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That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo. |
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It's far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had. |
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What I'm looking for is freebsd equivalent features in Gentoo. There |
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are three that I'm really looking for: |
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1) periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions. runs daily, weekly, |
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monthly and security scripts. These scripts do everything from check |
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rejected emails to backing up the passwd file. It's also got a local |
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facility where I can put my own scripts in. It's run out of cron and |
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emails the output of the periodic output nice and clean. I |
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understand that I can manually manufacture the equivalent scripts, |
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but I was hoping there was something similar out there. |
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2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. Outputs |
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what newer ports are available to what versions are actually |
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installed. I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I |
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can't find anything that operates the same way. |
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3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known |
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vulnerabilities. |
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Anyone know of any Gentoo equivalents and if not, what might be |
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decent workarounds? |
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