Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:08:55 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Audit tools? Message-ID: <426BFCD7.2080705@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20050424152608.GA64194@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <426BB50F.9060104@att.net> <20050424152608.GA64194@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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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
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