Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:15:07 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: nicole@mediacity.com, The experts <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu, Studded <Studded@dal.net> Subject: Re: Mirror Mirror crashing down MORE INFO Message-ID: <199803271015.CAA02751@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:24:46 PST." <199803270924.BAA11719@foo.primenet.com>
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>In localhost.freebsd.questions you write: > >[...] > >># Mirror.default > >>verbose = true >>make_bad_symlinks = true >>package = FreeBSD >>site = ftp.freebsd.org > >>local_dir = /usr/local/etc/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ >>remote_dir = pub/FreeBSD > >Hm. /pub/FreeBSD on wcarchive is a symlink. I don't know much about >mirror -- does it do OK with symlinks as initial targets? > >If not, then one of these may work. > >remote_dir = /.25/FreeBSD >or >remote_dir = .25/FreeBSD > >>do_deletes = true >>store_remote_listing = /usr/local/etc/ftp/pub/nicole >>get_newer = true You definately want to use the /pub/FreeBSD symlink and not the absolute path - we move things around regularly and the mirror would break if we did. I think the problem is that the local directory doesn't exist on their machine; make sure it exists before running the mirror. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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