When you need to check if FreeBSD ports contain a specific software, one needs to either use "find /usr/ports" or make use of the "make" utility.

Searching for bash in FreeBSD ports:
# make -C /usr/ports/ search key=bash | grep -vE "B-deps|R-deps" | less
...
Port: tuntun-0.4.0_3
Path: /usr/ports/security/tuntun
Info: A Gnome applet gui for OpenVPN
Maint: anderson@cnpm.embrapa.br
WWW: http://code.google.com/p/tuntun/

Port: unssh-1.4
Path: /usr/ports/security/unssh
Info: Fast way to delete entries from OpenSSH known_hosts file
Maint: ...

Whenever you need to know what package installed a specific file in FreeBSD, "pkg_info" can be used.




This is how to list files installed by pixman package:
# pkg_info -L ...

After you have updated your ports system and also it's index, you can check which packages have updates using "pkg_version" utility.

Fist, relevant "man pkg_version" info:

FeeBSD list installed packages

How to list installed software packages in FreeBSD.

PART 1: FreeBSD to FreeBSD - OSPF over GRE over Ipsec (racoon)


How to run OSPF routing protocol between two FreeBSD routers/servers.

Since multicasting is not supported by racoon (ipsec-tools) IPSEC in tunel mode, this ball needs to be played using Ipsec transport mode and GRE tunnels.

A little ipsec background from Ipsec illustrated (http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-ipsec.html). Quote:

When having multiple man files from multiple daemons with the same name (ie: /usr/share/man/man8/tftpd.8.gz from freebsd stock tftpd daemon and /usr/local/man/man8/tftpd.8.gz from yale-tftpd packet), the man tftpd command will show the content of the default tftpd.8.gz man page (/usr/share/man/man8/tftpd.8.gz).



If you want to see the man page from yale-tftpd (/usr/local/man/man8/tftpd.8.gz), you can change ...

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When compiling ssldump on freebsd, the configure script uses stock bpf.h header file instead of the libpcap one.


===> Building for ssldump-0.9b3_4
cc -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -march=pentium4 -DHAVE_LIBM=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TIME_H=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_SHORT=2 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG=8 -DRETSIGTYPE=void -DHAVE_VPRINTF=1 -DHAVE_STRDUP=1 -c -o pcap-snoop.o ./base/pcap-snoop.c -DOPENSSL -I./base/ -I./null/ -I./ssl/ -Icommon/include/ -I./null/ -I./ssl/ -I/usr/local/include
In file included from ./base/pcap-snoop.c:52:
/usr/include/net/bpf.h:63: error: redefinition of `struct bpf_program'
/usr/include/net/bpf.h:87: error: redefinition of `struct bpf_version'
/usr/include/net/bpf.h:596: error: ...

Ever had the putty/securecrt/terminal looking like this after cat-ing a binary or echoing encrypted content ?



There are many solutions on the web, but not all work all the time. Here's one that worked everytime for me: