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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