Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: chas <panda@peace.com.my> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for confirmation on prefered website mirroring method Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330152702.24859W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980330172219.00968e50@peace.com.my>
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On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, chas wrote: > Just looking for a bit of confirmation since it's a case > of the bling leading the blind at my end ..... > > >From what I can see, ncftp looks to be as good > as it gets in terms of mirroring website document trees. > For security, we'll setup a rule in the firewall to allow > the mirror machine ftp access. > Is this the usual way to mirror websites on FBSD ? It depends on how the remote site is generated. FreeBSD's own web page source is in a CVS tree which we can grab & regenerate via cvsup. This is how www7.freebsd.org stays current. A cron task updates the local repository daily. > Also, is it possible to trigger ncftp when files are modified ? > (with perhaps a 5 minute delay to allow for all modifications > on the source to complete). or would you simply set a > very frequent cron job (every 15 minutes, say). That's probably *too* fast. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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