From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 16:08:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C3BF16A4B3 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp08.wxs.nl (smtp08.wxs.nl [195.121.6.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473F243FDD for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from akruijff@www.kruijff.org) Received: from kruij557.speed.planet.nl (ipd50a97ba.speed.planet.nl [213.10.151.186]) by smtp08.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HMM00DY588479@smtp08.wxs.nl> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:07:24 +0200 (MEST) Received: from Alex.lan (localhost.lan [127.0.0.1]) by kruij557.speed.planet.nl (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9BN8g2x008247; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:08:42 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff@Alex.lan) Received: (from akruijff@localhost) by Alex.lan (8.12.8p2/8.12.8/Submit) id h9BN89h3008246; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:08:09 +0200 (CEST envelope-from akruijff) Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 01:08:04 +0200 From: Alex de Kruijff In-reply-to: <00ca01c38f21$ce4dbe00$f0df1ec4@perimeter.co.za> To: Patrick O'Reilly Message-id: <20031011230804.GA356@dds.nl> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i References: <00ca01c38f21$ce4dbe00$f0df1ec4@perimeter.co.za> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade -Fa X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:08:55 -0000 On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:29:40PM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Here's a strange thing: > > I have a number of servers which all run a portupgrade script every > night to fetch the latest distfiles automatically. I then complete the > upgrade when I decide I'm in the mood :) > > The strange part is that on some of the servers the script works just > fine, and on others it runs, and emails me what looks like a job well > done, but the distfile has NOT been fetched. When I then go to do the > actual upgrade, the distfile must first be fetched by portupgrade before > it proceeds to build. > > Does anyone know what might cause this? There could be any number of problems that may be the cause of this. I realy can't see that from here. What you need to do is to do a check on every machine that doesn't work. I find it best to go from where the process begins and go all the way down to portupgrade. Try to find where it goes wrong. It could be that the crontab is wrong or that portupgrade isn't installed. -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/