From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 18:19:59 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4916A469 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:19:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 235EB13C447 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 18:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so93729anc for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:19:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.211.11 with SMTP id j11mr828643ang.1179944396688; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id c4sm1935481anc.2007.05.23.11.19.55; Wed, 23 May 2007 11:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 14:20:46 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <20070523181943.1a97605c@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20070524002531.3cd65668@localhost> <20070523181943.1a97605c@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070523141618.3687.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.31 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:19:59 -0000 On Wednesday May 23, 2007 at 01:19:43 (PM) RW wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 > > Heinrich Rebehn 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