From owner-freebsd-hubs Thu Apr 26 1:29:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E7D37B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 01:29:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ache@nagual.pp.ru) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3Q8TR386878; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:29:27 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:29:20 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Peter Wemm Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ftp-master.freebsd.org is alive ... Message-ID: <20010426122917.A86839@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20010426055959.01952380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010426080324.ED184380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010426080324.ED184380A@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:03:24AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:03:24 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > > > The intent is to provide (preferably) rsyncd access for all the primary > > mirrors around the place, and probably also ftpd as a fallback for systems > > that cannot (or will not) run rsync for some reason. > > Actually, now that I think about it some more, mixing ftp and rsync is a > Really Bad Idea. things like mirror, spegla etc work in *local time*, while > rsync works in UTC. ie: if you rsync to a machine in a different timezone, Remote ftpd's traditionally works in UTC on Unices. Correctly writted ftp mirror programs should assume UTC too, f.e. omi does it. If some mirroring program is broken here, just run it setting TZ to UTC -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message