From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 15:28:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21857 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21759 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA25024; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:28:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: chas cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: looking for confirmation on prefered website mirroring method In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980330172219.00968e50@peace.com.my> 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 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