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
