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From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: keep-alive option for sudo in portmaster
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Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> 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.

Wouldn't periodic hook be useful to smth else besides PM_SU_CMD? Like
sending time passed since current port build started to xterm title.
It may help to guess how long till it completes the build.