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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:08:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: Audit tools?
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Erik Trulsson wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 08:02:39AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>What are the tools that I should use to audit an existing 
>>FreeBSD installation? Without changing anything, I wish 
>>to quickly determine what is installed, i.e., the basic 
>>system, ports and packages, and then to compare what is 
>>installed to the currently available versions. 
> 
> 
> For ports/packages you can use pkg_info(1) to see what is installed,
> and pkg_version(1) to compare what is installed to what is in the ports
> tree.
> 
> For the base system there is no corresponding way to see what is
> installed or not.  'uname -a' will show which version of FreeBSD is
> installed, but after that you will have to check manually to see if all
> components are installed or not.
> 
> 
Erik,
Thanks; I was hoping that there were some additional tools that 
I hadn't found so far. At least you have confirmed that I'm 
following a reasonable procedure. 
Jay