Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:20:46 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <20070523141618.3687.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070523181943.1a97605c@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20070524002531.3cd65668@localhost> <20070523181943.1a97605c@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Wednesday May 23, 2007 at 01:19:43 (PM) RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200
> > Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> >
> > > This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of
> > > installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports.
> >
> > I agree that is not clear why it is removing ports without warning.
>
> Well, we don't actually know that. I suspect that there was a warning,
> but it went to stdout and was eaten by "|grep OLD". Portmanger then
> waited for a y/n response for 5 minutes, and went with the default of
> deleting the port.
If "portmanager" is run with the '-l' flag, it will produce a log in the
'/var/log' directory called 'portmanager.log'. You can inspect that file
to see what transpired.
Occasionally, I always run portmanger like this:
script ~/pm.log portmanager -u -l -p
That takes care of everything for me and I can backtrack to see where an
error occurred.
Good luck!
--
Gerard
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