From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 20:28:20 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3796F16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:28:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F69143D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:28:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout10/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j58KSJHp018797; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (pool-68-161-69-6.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.69.6]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j58KSHYK021714; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:28:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:28:16 -0400 To: Nicolas Salvo X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make index failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:28:20 -0000 Hi-- On Jun 8, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Nicolas Salvo wrote: > I have some problems with generating the index of the ports > collection, the problem is > hardware related, and in some part of the process the host > goes down. I want to know if > there's a way to keep the status, so when the host comes back > I can finish it. It's quite likely that "cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex" is going to do what you want without the hardware stress that building the INDEX locally causes. However, your machine should not crash or go down just because it is under load, either. -- -Chuck