From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 19:51:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24335 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [142.77.249.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA24323 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 19:51:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA04300; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:50:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 22:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sup is broken? In-Reply-To: <26087.823565507@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 Feb 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Jordan, I would be more than happy to switch to an alternate sup > > server, if only the other ones would work worth a sh*t! > > I know that there are still some problems with the other sup sites, > and it's more than likely that some additional shuffling of the > servers and name space will be required until we have fairly beefy and > reliable machines serving sup2.freebsd.org and sup3.freebsd.org at a > minimum. We're just starting out with this here, more in panic > reaction to freefall melting down than anything else, and it's going > to take a little longer to work the bugs out. I didn't say that this > was all going to work right away! :-) > I just added on a new drive to the system, and have dedicated part of it to maintaining a sup server, but I have to concerns that I need addressed first: Is there a way of "logging" connections? I don't want to know *what* ppl are taking, I'd just like to keep track of number of connections and from where and stuff like that. I'm trying to keep my machines in line with -current...but if I compile in ~supfiles/current/sys/.., then someone coming in to sup files is going to get my .o files too, right? Is this what ctm is for, or is it something altogether different that I must do so that I can do this? *or* does sup ignore .o files? > 1. You need to be willing to host at least 10 bandwidth-sucking connections Working on it... > collections now. Simply sup only one tree, the CVS tree, and then use > it locally from cron to check out your own -stable and -current trees. > You don't have to sup all 3 trees from freefall! :-) > Hmmm, this might answer my one question...if I sup CVS instead of -current/-ports, I'll get what, exactly? -current/-stable/-ports/?? I'm going to look at that sup-servers file again, in case I missed something :( > Volunteers? This is your resource, constructed for your benefit, > after all! :-) > I'm slow, but am working on it...back to the manuals :( Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc