On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:29:04AM +1030, Ian wrote:
> Hi, just wondering if Suse has any sort of regular system checks akin to the 
> periodic scripts that FreeBSD runs every day/week/month to report on the 
> general health & security of the system?
> 
> Periodic does some general cleaning up and emails report to root the file 
> system status (a df basically), any alterations to system files (including a 
> diff of changes to system config files), mail system status, a monthly 
> summary of login accounting and any warnings that appear in the messages log 
> file as well as various other stuff. It also lists any installed ports or 
> packages that have security alerts. After many years of using FreeBSD, I've 
> come to rely on these reports to keep me informed about my system.
> 
> So now I'm using Suse (trying to get familiar with it before changing my 
> Netware servers at work over to OES on Suse) and I've tried googling for info 
> about this, but haven't found anything useful as yet.


The seccheck package contains such things for instance.

Ciao, Marcus
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