Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 21:15:21 -0400 From: Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does pkg automatically download INDEX? Message-ID: <53E6C7A9.30104@cyberbotx.com> In-Reply-To: <CACdU%2Bf_iGy3f_nQ5Wg=h87qL%2BnJ_UW0QVMYD-q1v-EUxzL1V=w@mail.gmail.com> References: <53DE7266.5000606@cyberbotx.com> <53DE8623.1090208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53DE8EBD.4090303@cyberbotx.com> <53DE934C.101@FreeBSD.org> <53DE9B38.2000805@cyberbotx.com> <CAN6yY1tu-M1g6h3ihmOxd=dTrVQHccTWrXZPkn-dmcPteTo4vg@mail.gmail.com> <53DEEB93.8010208@cyberbotx.com> <20140804021418.GE1228@albert.catwhisker.org> <53DF69ED.4040700@cyberbotx.com> <20140804112821.GF1228@albert.catwhisker.org> <53E56488.1070104@cyberbotx.com> <CACdU%2Bf_iGy3f_nQ5Wg=h87qL%2BnJ_UW0QVMYD-q1v-EUxzL1V=w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/09/14 19:45, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com> 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 As far as I can tell, no, none of my crontabs have any references to portsnap in them. This is making me a bit stumped as to why it would be happening. I checked the main /etc/crontab, I checked the crontabs in /var/cron/tabs. I have searched inside of /etc and /usr/local/etc for anything related to portsnap. Nothing that would be doing this is coming up at all. Thanks, Naram Qashat
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