[gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Jason Lixfeld
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

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread JimD
Jason Lixfeld wrote: Hi, 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 eix

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread b.n.
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. Sad. OSS software should be platform independent (expecially if both OSes are Unix-like). That being said, I must say

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Alexander Kirillov
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

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: snip 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? Try this: NAME glsa-check - Gentoo: Tool to locally monitor and

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Philip Webb
060603 Jason Lixfeld wrote: I am very impressed with Gentoo. It's far superior to RedHat. No-one is likely to disagree with you here (grin). 1) periodic(8) -- run periodic system functions. sys-process/vixie-cron . 2) pkg_version -- summarize installed versions of packages. All installed

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:41:07 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: Emerge app-portage/gentoolkit , then enter glsa-check -l | grep \[N\] or glsa-check --test all -- Neil Bothwick Wow! That lightning sounds clo..it! NO CARRIER signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeBSD equivalent features?

2006-06-03 Thread b.n.
I believe gentoolkit has a glsa-check script which would be equivalent to this. wow, I didn't know about this! thanks! m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list