ftp.debian.org problems

1996-11-30 Thread Bruce Perens
"frozen" seems to be mostly gone from ftp.debian.org . I'll ask Greg Hankins, the administrator, to look into the problem. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 2

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Hallo Martin! }> We suggest you use the same mirror script we use, and set it so that if }> more than 10% of files go away at once it won't delete them. } }Which one do you use? Where to get it? 10% seems reasonable. It is the mirror program that is shipped with Debian, mirror 2.8 from Lee McLaug

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
The mirror system we use is in the Debian net/mirror-2.8-6.deb package. This is the well-known Perl mirror program. I think it requires Perl5 to run without great big memory leaks, but you should be able to take the debian source/net/mirror-2.8-6.tar.gz archive and move that to any platform that ru

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > We suggest you use the same mirror script we use, and set it so that if > > more than 10% of files go away at once it won't delete them. > > Which one do you use? Where to get it? 10% seems reasonable. Is

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Martin Konold
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > We suggest you use the same mirror script we use, and set it so that if > more than 10% of files go away at once it won't delete them. Which one do you use? Where to get it? 10% seems reasonable. > We did have problems with debian.org - the system it wa

Re: ftp.debian.org problems

1996-06-17 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Martin Konold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.) I do not hink it is a good idea to mount the /pub areas on a heavily > used ftp server via nfs. (especially performace wise) This is currently done because of a hardware/driver problem. We'll get that resolved eventually. > 2.) A lot of simple mirro