From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 17:41:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45F95106566C for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:41:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5078FC15 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:41:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o9SHfNVe012204; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:41:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4CC9B5C3.7020600@qeng-ho.org> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:41:23 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101023 Thunderbird/3.0.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Spangler References: <1288284970.1718.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1288284970.1718.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port update problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:41:25 -0000 On 10/28/10 17:56, Doug Spangler wrote: > Fetch the current INDEX as well, that happens when there isn't a proper > INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man > page for portsnap The command (it's portsnap wrapped up with start & finish time messages that can be run from cron) has worked perfectly correctly for weeks, with no problems. What I'm interested in is why it failed this time when it seemed to behave no differently from any time before, with no error messages. BTW, Handbook contents: 5 The X Window System Methinks you mean Chapter 4, which I'm familiar with, ditto portsnap. I switched to using it rather than csup months ago, and it's been faultless until now. I probably should have copied cperciva on the initial post. -- "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, few know what a wombat looks like, but everyone knows what a dragon looks like." -- Avram Davidson, _Adventures in Unhistory_