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Date:      Sat, 6 Mar 2004 05:50:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/62516: hostsenty port is unusable as packaged
Message-ID:  <200403061350.i26DoHu4041206@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/62516; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dan Mahoney <danm@prime.gushi.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/62516: hostsenty port is unusable as packaged
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 05:43:49 -0800

 On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:54:54AM -0500, Dan Mahoney wrote:
 
 > The ports/security/hostsentry port is a port that is supposed to be able to monitor for a user's suspicious activity, however, 
 > it requires the python syslog modules, and python dbm and/or gdbm modules.  Presently, this module will fail to build under 
 > any FreeBSD python ports (or if attempting to build python from scratch).
 > 
 > Also of note is that the port installs to /usr/local/abacus rather than to /usr/local/etc as is the BSD standard.
 
 This port is unmaintained and should be removed if no-one can come
 forward to address this.  Thanks for bringing it up.
 
 Kris



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