From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 30 11:50:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A1116A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:50:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.blarg.net (zoot.blarg.net [206.124.128.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EECC43FCB for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:50:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abowhill@blarg.net) Received: from kosmos.my.net (12-230-212-176.client.attbi.com [12.230.212.176]) by mail.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A8134135 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from kosmos.my.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id hAU7qUj1087459 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos@kosmos.my.net) Received: (from kosmos@localhost) by kosmos.my.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id hAU7qUDo087458 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos) Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:52:29 -0800 From: Allan Bowhill To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031130075229.GA87221@kosmos.my.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20031130092448.8A82D42BF1@server1.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031130092448.8A82D42BF1@server1.messagingengine.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-URL: http://www.blarg.net/~abowhill/ Subject: Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 19:50:55 -0000 On 0, Paul van Berlo wrote: :Hello, : :is there an easy way to determine which distribution sets were installed :during the FreeBSD installation and after that? I inherited a server and :want to make sure what is and is not installed. Of course I can do all of :this manually, but I was hoping FreeBSD keeps a log or something :somewhere. I am not %100 sure, but I think you might have to do it manually. I don't think FreeBSD keeps records of what was originally chosen in /stand/sysinstall for distribution sets on a first-time installation. If you are just talking about software installed using the ports/packages collection just do "pkg_info -a". Generally, this reflects what exists on the system at the current moment. But there are no guarantees, since things can be erased manually. But really finding out what was installed would be a pretty involved thing, becuase you can't guarantee the person who owned it last had not added, removed or modified anything outside the record-keeping mechanisms since he/she first installed the OS. --Allan