From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 16:07:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA07755 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:07:19 -0700 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07741 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:07:18 -0700 From: freebsd@freedom.wit.com Received: from freedom.wit.com (freedom.wit.com [144.92.88.30]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.6.10/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id PAA01402 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 15:08:51 -0700 Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by freedom.wit.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA25533; Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:31:11 GMT Message-Id: <199507061631.QAA25533@freedom.wit.com> Subject: Re: Mirror To: bicknell@vt.edu Date: Thu, 6 Jul 1995 16:31:10 +0000 () Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507061348.JAA12213@husky.cslab.vt.edu> from "Leo Bicknell" at Jul 6, 95 09:48:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 929 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk We ran into the same problem a long time ago and rewrote a new mirror script called mango. We will release it off of our home page and I think you might find it very easy to use. I will add a link to it from the home page off of www.wit.com. jcarr > > > Hello. My name is Leo Bicknell, and I work for the > Virginia Tech Comptuer Science department. This fall our > Freshman will be using PC Compatables with FreeBSD on them. > As a result, we want to run a local FreeBSD mirror, as many > of them (and us) will be wanting the source. > > We already have a mirror setup via "mirror", but that > program is not very efficient. We would rather use sup. I > looked in the sup FAQ, but couldn't find a distribution that > mirrored _all_ of FreeBSD. Is there a way to mirror all > of ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD via sup? > > Incidentally, once we get all the kinks worked out > we will be a public FreeBSD mirror. >