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, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
