[gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Jason Lixfeld]

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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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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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[JimD]

Jason Lixfeld wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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 eix gentoolkit

Then man eix and man gentoolkit.

Jim
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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Alexander Kirillov]

>>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?

Ye, you need sys-process/vixie-cron.
Then you may have a look at app-forensics/aide
which checks for altered files in selected dirs.
And probably app-admin/tenshi - log parsing and notification.

HTH,
Sasha

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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Teresa and Dale]

Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:

> <snip>
>
>
>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?
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
Try this:

> NAME
>        glsa-check - Gentoo: Tool to locally monitor and manage GLSA's
>

Command glsa-check or you can man it one.

Hope that helps.

Dale
:-)  :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[b.n.]

>     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.

Sad. OSS software should be platform independent (expecially if both 
OSes are Unix-like).

> 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.

<flame>Not surprising, being RH maybe the worst Linux experience 
possible. Linux fortunately is not RH, and is much better.</flame>

> 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 --deep --update --pretend --verbose world

If you want info about packages etc. I advice you to emerge gentoolkit 
(a collection of useful tools for Portage) and eix (a FAST tool for 
querying the Portage database).

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

If you want to be aware of security issues & updates, subscribe the 
gentoo-announce mailing list. If it's something actively doing testing 
on packages, well, I don't know.

m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Philip Webb]

060603 Jason Lixfeld wrote:
> I am very impressed with Gentoo.  It's far superior to RedHat.

No-one is likely to disagree with you here (grin).

> 1) periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions.

 sys-process/vixie-cron .

> 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages.

All installed packages are listed in  /var/db/pkg/  under types.
Emerge  app-portage/eix  & enter 'eix <pkg>' for individual packages.

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

Emerge  app-portage/gentoolkit , then enter

  glsa-check -l | grep "\[N\]"

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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:41:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:

> Emerge  app-portage/gentoolkit , then enter
> 
>   glsa-check -l | grep "\[N\]"

or glsa-check --test all


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Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

[b.n.]

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

wow, I didn't know about this! thanks!

m.
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