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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 1996 09:18:51 +0100 (MET)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        sdd@ccd.tas.gov.au (Scott Donovan)
Cc:        lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mirror and perl
Message-ID:  <199603180818.JAA12233@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960318050150.0072cd74@falcon.pacit.tas.gov.au>

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> >Oh dear!  I've found mirror-2.8 + perl5.001m to be pretty good.
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> I would have to agree, opn all but one point. the -F option always tries to
> write the db files in the / directory.. highly anoying.. 2.3 didn't do
> this.. just leeked memory :-)

This is because of a typo in the mirror script: big_tmp vs. big_temp.
One of these is set to /var/tmp but the empty one (defaulting to /)
is being used later.

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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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