From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 23:46:00 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 CCCDBD2D for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 23:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22e.google.com (mail-ig0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9ABA327ED for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 23:46:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f174.google.com with SMTP id c1so2661053igq.13 for ; Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:46:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=iZFnQXQ6y0ulxgIU7EKDJTph3MKzkI0QFuai2lku56w=; b=qQQ4V3h96AoGeDhBZ940DBIEnkITajVctEbO/m5iqR0RyiKRj1ZHYAG/zWzoYCYPXZ rPoa7km4YbvcOtKFX6EAy9k/5yEC3g18yA40kyzucmOnXI3hrZHaiw6MWZo4HjaeGo0R als9o/8c9EU9yACGh45qIYpfrVBhpuLAxe2+m4a+8RnKWNdNqezEZ34v49p0XIyGTN6E SBNms6dMnGX3SKSkLW26Fdhf8r8Vq0dzMMeD4W3XDovfcUem7aUOyZTNhXkJz3emtGqa Let67EVcfT5YoYmB3EiCL6khMQxaN3ZVnWF44sUN5F66N0XpByR1kG0db28Ov05R1Pxz brug== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.41.104 with SMTP id e8mr16979565igl.35.1407627960038; Sat, 09 Aug 2014 16:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.50.73.70 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:45:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53E56488.1070104@cyberbotx.com> 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> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:45:59 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? From: Scot Hetzel To: Naram Qashat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:46:00 -0000 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 -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.