From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 3 21:31:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10674 for current-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10650 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA26565; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 06:31:43 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id GAA17627; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 06:31:21 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.7/keltia-uucp-2.9) id BAA16783; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 01:23:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608032323.BAA16783@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 01:23:30 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sup failing for sup.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608031632.CAA08124@spooky.eis.net.au>; from Ernie Elu on Aug 4, 1996 2:32:50 +1000 References: <199608031632.CAA08124@spooky.eis.net.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.38 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Ernie Elu: > The point it the sup.au.freebsd.org files were unreliable in that instance > and I would be keen to know if there is any work around? I lost a lot of One way to possibly solve this is not to use SUP but try RSYNC. Instead of just looking at the file's date, it looks at the file itself and only send the diffs. It may be more relieable than SUP. I don't know about the load on the server though. I think it is worth the try... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #17: Fri Aug 2 20:40:17 MET DST 1996