Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck]

On Sunday, 4 June 2006 4:40, Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	I'm new to Gentoo.  I come from FreeBSD.  I have to run Gentoo in
> this particular case because I need an asterisk box and asterisk runs
> better on Linux than FreeBSD.
>
> That being said, I must say that I am very impressed with Gentoo.
> It's far superior to RedHat, which was the last Linux experience I had.
>
> What I'm looking for is freebsd equivalent features in Gentoo.  There
> are three that I'm really looking for:
>
> 1) periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions.  runs daily, weekly,
> monthly and security scripts.  These scripts do everything from check
> rejected emails to backing up the passwd file.  It's also got a local
> facility where I can put my own scripts in.  It's run out of cron and
> emails the output of the periodic output nice and clean.  I
> understand that I can manually manufacture the equivalent scripts,
> but I was hoping there was something similar out there.

I don't see how this is any different to just using cron?

>
> 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages.  Outputs
> what newer ports are available to what versions are actually
> installed.  I've looked through the emerge and ebuild docs, but I
> can't find anything that operates the same way.

emerge -pve world will list all installed packages. emerge -avuDN will show 
all new packages to be installed after a sync. Just use various combinations 
of emerge flags to do what you want.

>
> 3) portaudit(1) -- system to check installed packages for known
> vulnerabilities.

I believe gentoolkit has a glsa-check script which would be equivalent to 
this.

>
> Anyone know of any Gentoo equivalents and if not, what might be
> decent workarounds?

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