Does pkg automatically download INDEX?

[Scot Hetzel]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Naram Qashat <cyberbotx at 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


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