From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FmbqI-0006QU-U3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:31:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k53JSl3K017455; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:28:47 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k53JK7X4011683 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:20:07 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s18so503211wxc for ; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:20:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=QsCMnVkwFxvda5QYpF0mRHAc2deNnLu5Yncl0gMGkqocpwa+wcQvqPDy8vphlTQweZJziuBY3Osr38Um8LQm0FMtlRPmsKTlgPnOqs0cxj2JAmFmQUHEcEsUN3TE96drHvDoAQn15sq5jV6g3K1EE0f8lRJOcD3nb/DC5EdTJjQ= Received: by 10.70.39.3 with SMTP id m3mr4134569wxm; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [210.0.108.13]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h14sm3295738wxd.2006.06.03.12.20.05; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features? Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 04:49:56 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <399397AA-0B32-46CA-AB69-E5CA54189CC5@lixfeld.ca> In-Reply-To: <399397AA-0B32-46CA-AB69-E5CA54189CC5@lixfeld.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606040449.57253.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0b72f22f-5ea9-49e4-8ee9-a2a3cd27885a X-Archives-Hash: 887fa837224ca1e71e9d314ea0a61dca 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? -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list