verify FreeBSD installation

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Wed Feb 24 06:18:35 UTC 2016


On 2/23/2016 10:17 PM, Robert Ayrapetyan wrote:
> Hi. Is there any reliable way to verify checksums of all local files 
> for some FreeBSD installation? E.g. I'm using a hoster which provides 
> pre-deployed FreeBSD instances, how can I be sure there are no any 
> patches\changes in a kernel\services etc? Does FreeBSD provides any 
> automated tools for such kind of a verification? Thanks.

IYou can try freebsd-update with the IDS option. Have a look at the man 
page for details.

-Matthew


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