From owner-freebsd-doc Mon May 7 12:26:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from cluck.stealthchickens.org (cluck.stealthchickens.org [209.192.217.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E3A37B422; Mon, 7 May 2001 12:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@FreeBSD.org) Received: from guinness.osdn.com (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cluck.stealthchickens.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f47JQUU32954; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:26:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@FreeBSD.org) Received: by guinness.osdn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 865AF93; Mon, 7 May 2001 15:26:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:26:29 -0400 From: Jim Mock To: John Baldwin Cc: Jordan Hubbard , doc@FreeBSD.org, sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu Subject: Re: Thanks in advance for fixing this bug/oversight =) Message-ID: <20010507152629.B3805@guinness.osdn.com> Reply-To: jim@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 07 May 2001 at 12:10:21 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > On 06-May-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I think the best thing to do right now is take ftp.freebsd.org > > completely offline until we can make it a round-robin mirror list. > > I don't have the disk space to make ftp.freebsd.org a full and > > complete mirror of ftp-master.freebsd.org and what's even more > > embarassing is not having your perceived "official mirror site" > > being a full and complete mirror. > > > > I'll request that ftp.freebsd.org go offline for now. > > At least put a note up about that then. If people go to connect to > ftp.freebsd.org and get connection refused or a DNS lookup that will > scare them even more. Yeah, I agree this would be bad. People are complaining like crazy now, having the site completely vanish would only make it worse. > Why not just put the text of your mail to -announce up in the > newsflash section? Also, FWIW, Neil Blakely-Milner (sp?) had a > sample of a new frontpage that trimmed some of the text and had the > last 4 or 5 items from newsflash on the bottom. That would be a very > nice addition if we could find a nice way of doing that. I think this would be a good idea. A perl script to grab the last few entries and put them into a file which gets included onto the main page with SSI (yes, ick, but since we don't want PHP...) should do the trick. Actually, now that I think about it, we wouldn't even need to use SSI. The script could just output to /news/news.out or something and we can use the SGML hooks to include it. Something like this: In www/en/includes.sgml: In www/en/index.sgml (where the news would show): &news; The most involved part would be the perl script to split out the last few entries. - jim -- - jim mock - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message