On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Naram Qashat <[email protected]> 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 -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were maimed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
