From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 01:15:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C92C2F92 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe14:43:76:96:62:32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7367B2087 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.11]) by qmta03.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cp191o0050EZKEL53pFNKQ; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:15:22 +0000 Received: from kirby.cyberbotx.com ([107.5.48.95]) by omta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id cpFM1o00T23DSHF3MpFNb9; Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:15:22 +0000 Message-ID: <53E6C7A9.30104@cyberbotx.com> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:15:21 -0400 From: Naram Qashat User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scot Hetzel Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> <53DE934C.101@FreeBSD.org> <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com> <53DEEB93.8010208@cyberbotx.com> <20140804021418.GE1228@albert.catwhisker.org> <53DF69ED.4040700@cyberbotx.com> <20140804112821.GF1228@albert.catwhisker.org> <53E56488.1070104@cyberbotx.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20140121; t=1407633322; bh=R6+vjMcM0wK8xcU9PVhRk7TxQdBEn88WRSGy9Ka8M0Y=; h=Received:Received:Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject: Content-Type; b=mL/WxNQvJv3C/lFf5E8IokFxV8bRIzBrSbs0LsKjNYb/1sGmw3kGr1EFsPje517vD ij8f6g2XrnfoKtNZ366w4PQv/YbRW47uaJKAqOI8682jERQXmeJ+cbeldmOTxrGHNi 1D5eFGcy9VbE/f2lqnNphjS3edXp/GpGKW3gvRNwLDA1rMVncri8rgDfa8nvhhaGpb tz6ha2CHfaCy0Q6w5gzMhvty9chMcnc5HJeuQ5Kq9mnwIdNxYPXGPni/ZA3q7s3IkI ECfeb4cxzUW3LTETaex/KftBNhdaPaJq7C9IMADzc6Y8dVf/qIwgfF22pcHtZBCsan n+9ALtUl9HGjg== Cc: FreeBSD Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 01:15:25 -0000 On 08/09/14 19:45, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Naram Qashat wrote: >> On 08/04/14 07:28, David Wolfskill wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 07:09:33AM -0400, Naram Qashat wrote: >>>> >>>> On 08/03/14 22:14, David Wolfskill wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 10:10:27PM -0400, Naram Qashat wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> ... >>>>>> If there is >>>>>> a way to find out when any process is attempting to modify a file, that >>>>>> would >>>>>> probably help me narrow it down, but I'm not aware of anything that can >>>>>> do that, >>>>>> ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Well, "chflags schg /usr/ports/INDEX*" would *prevent* the modification >>>> >>>> ... >>>> This was a really good suggestion..... >>> >>> >>> Glad to help. :-) >>> >>> Peace, >>> david >> >> >> OK, so while no programs have whined or complained, I get the feeling that >> something on my system is running portsnap without my knowledge. When I had >> set the schg flag on INDEX-9, an INDEX-9.bz2 file came up. I set the schg >> flag on that as well, and now I notice there are a bunch of files called >> .fetch.??????.INDEX-9.bz2 (where ?????? is a random string), as well as a >> file called .portsnap.INDEX. As far as I know, I don't have anything >> configured to run portsnap, but is there something that defaults to running >> portsnap occasionally? I couldn't find anything that would do that. >> > > Do your have a crontab entry that is running portsnap with the -I > (update INDEX) option? > > http://www.pl.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/portsnap.html As far as I can tell, no, none of my crontabs have any references to portsnap in them. This is making me a bit stumped as to why it would be happening. I checked the main /etc/crontab, I checked the crontabs in /var/cron/tabs. I have searched inside of /etc and /usr/local/etc for anything related to portsnap. Nothing that would be doing this is coming up at all. Thanks, Naram Qashat