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Date:      Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:52:37 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: keep-alive option for sudo in portmaster
Message-ID:  <4C5C8425.5060702@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <86y6cjke9i.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <86y6cjke9i.fsf@gmail.com>

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On 08/06/2010 07:27, Anonymous wrote:
> While updating ports some take a long time to compile and when it
> finally comes time to install I need to type password again.
> Is there an option to prevent that? Smth like running
> 
>   $ sudo true
> 
> would be enough to update time stamp. They're per tty by default, anyway.

While I can sympathize with your situation, I think you'd be better off
in this case running your portmaster commands in an actual root shell.


Doug

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