From owner-ctm-users@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 14:22:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ctm-users@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34C416A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02.asp.att.net [63.240.76.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CD043D1F for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:22:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from math.missouri.edu (12-216-240-169.client.mchsi.com[12.216.240.169]) by sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02) with ESMTP id <20040422212203im200559sne>; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:22:03 +0000 Message-ID: <4088377A.70005@math.missouri.edu> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 16:22:02 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Oldach References: <200404221849.i3MIncre036885@sep.oldach.net> In-Reply-To: <200404221849.i3MIncre036885@sep.oldach.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CTM broke - last available Delta was April 19, please fix ASAP X-BeenThere: ctm-users@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CTM User discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:22:05 -0000 Helge Oldach wrote: > Stephen Montgomery-Smith: > >>I think I found the problem with the ftp sites for the CTM deltas. Recently was >>created a new xEmpty for cvs-cur. It seems that rsync takes more than an hour >>to download this file, by which time a new rsync daemon starts. The effect >>seems to be that the older rsync process simply stops (although it does not get >>killed), and the new rsync process starts all over again. >> >>A fix to this problem is to reduce the number of times that the rsync update >>takes place. But really this seems to be a problem with rsync. Any other >>suggestions? > > > Why do you start a new daemon at all? I am using rsync for copying > snapshots of running jails to another box, and never found the need to > restart rsyncd. > > If you restart with > > /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rsyncd.sh stop && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rsyncd.sh start > > the rc.subr script should hang until the first rsyncd has finished its > transfers. > > Helge > I use inetd to start rsync. Probably if I did it the way you suggest, this would fix the problems.