Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-24 Thread Andrea Mennucci
hi > > Nice program. thanks > Adding the "-s 1024" flag to ping would make the packets closer to the > size of FTP packets, and make the results more accurate. well, indeed I had done that after sending it > I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under > /tmp and

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-24 Thread Dale Martin
Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under > /tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist. > Set your umask so that others do not have write permissions on the directory > and its files _before_ yo

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-22 Thread Bruce Perens
Nice program. Adding the "-s 1024" flag to ping would make the packets closer to the size of FTP packets, and make the results more accurate. I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under /tmp and delete it when it is done, rather than insist that ~/tmp exist. Set your

Re: to find fastest debian mirror

1997-11-22 Thread Gertjan Klein
Andrea Mennucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is in MIME format. Yuk - as this was normal text, this wasn't necessary. > this script takes as its argument the file README.mirrors > (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp sites), extracts the list > of hosts and pings th