etcutils is a package that provides standalone utilities to manipulate some of the configuration files in /etc in a programmatic manner. Some of these files can be seen as databases and, as such, they should have tools to update them. The utilities provided by etcutils are designed to permit their integration into packaging systems. Once integrated, packages can use these tools to automatically modify these system-wide configuration files without having to care about portability issues. Of course, these utilities provide a command-line interface that resembles that of other standard tools, and thus their manual usage is also possible. The following utilities are provided: * services(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the services(5) database. * shells(8): Add, list, remove and check the presence of entries in the shells(5) database.
Binary packages can be installed with the high-level tool pkgin (which can be installed with pkg_add) or pkg_add(1) (installed by default). The NetBSD packages collection is also designed to permit easy installation from source.
The pkg_admin audit command locates any installed package which has been mentioned in security advisories as having vulnerabilities.
Please note the vulnerabilities database might not be fully accurate, and not every bug is exploitable with every configuration.
Problem reports, updates or suggestions for this package should be reported with send-pr.