From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 14:57: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B1037B67D for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 14:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from onyx (onyx.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.140.171]) by bingnet2.cc.binghamton.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f19MuXc11509; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:56:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:56:19 -0500 (EST) From: Zhiui Zhang X-Sender: zzhang@onyx To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Obtaining mailing list archive In-Reply-To: <20010209143503.A69020@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:24:31PM -0500, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > > > I tried to obtain the mailing list archive, the following supfile does not > > work: > > > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/data/cvsup > > *default prefix=/data/cvsup > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > *default compress > > > > #src-all > > mail-archive release=current > > > > What's the problem? How many disk space will be needed for this? > > I assume the supfile is correct - but not all mirrors carry the > mailing list archives because they're so large. docs.freebsd.org shows > the current sizes. Is 3 Gig enough for the archive? I just tried docs.freebsd.org, it needs authentication. Any other site that does not need authentication? -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message