Tip: Fix portaudit database error

I use portaudit to check installed packages on my FreeBSD systems for knwon vulnerabilities. However the tool behaved quite ackwardy today.

By running:

• # portaudit -Fda

It outputed:

auditfile.tbz 100% of 53 kB 56 kBps
portaudit: Database too old.
Old database restored.
portaudit: Download failed.

The workaround was posted on freebsd-questions mailing list and consists of editing portaudit's configuration file and changing the mirror address:

• % su
  
• # cp /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf
• # vim /usr/local/etc/portaudit.conf

portaudit_sites="http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/"

• # portaudit -Fda

In a couple of days the mirror issues should be fixed so by then you can revert to the default portaudit_sites="http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/".

For more info have a look at portaudit's man page and at http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=933878+0+current/freebsd-questions.