On Saturday 13 January 2007 19:43, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> 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

Thanks for that - seccheck looks like just the thing - it's a copy of OpenBSDs 
periodic scripts.

Cheers,
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Ian
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