[gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Jason Lixfeld <jason+lists.gentoo@lixfeld.ca>]

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.

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.

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

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