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 1FmbdV-0002FO-FG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:18:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k53JGnFC029112; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:16:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k53JB78O025769 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:11:07 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4712649E1 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 24615-08 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:11:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eshara.ebit.ca (eshara.ebit.ca [69.90.17.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD09649CD for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.7.194.254] (helo=[192.168.100.191]) by eshara.ebit.ca with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1FmbWT-0000AF-8a for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:10:57 -0400 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 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <399397AA-0B32-46CA-AB69-E5CA54189CC5@lixfeld.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Jason Lixfeld Subject: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features? Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:10:50 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.568 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.031, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -1.568 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 1b712007-6190-40a2-a17c-6dd4c1ffe36f X-Archives-Hash: 30b84f7fab982d254cd4286848dba6da 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? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list