From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 10:54:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E8537B405 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f85HsKg41789 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id f85HsKH07526; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:54:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:54:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109051754.f85HsKH07526@vashon.polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Subject: Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none In-Reply-To: <20010905094236.G96880@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200109051638.f85Gc6c07100@vashon.polstra.com> <20010905094236.G96880@dragon.nuxi.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010905094236.G96880@dragon.nuxi.com>, David O'Brien wrote: > What is the right mailing list to plead for more anoncvs mirrors? I doubt that "pleading" would help, but "volunteering" might. :-) I have (had?) been maintaining anoncvs.freebsd.org, but I don't have time for any others. In fact I don't really have time even for that one any more. I think the best way for us to get more anonymous CVS sites would be to encourage volunteers to set them up, just like our other mirror sites. And a good way to encourage that would be for you or somebody else to create an "anoncvs-kit" port analogous to the cvsup-mirror port, which would make it easy to set up an anonymous CVS site. It's not as trivial to do as you might imagine. Here are a few important points: - You need a pretty powerful machine to handle even, say, 4-6 clients at a time. Anonymous CVS is a hog like you wouldn't believe. Don't try to use the machine for anything else if you're using it for anonymous CVS. - You need a way to limit the number of simultaneous clients. I used xinetd on anoncvs.freebsd.org, and it worked well enough. - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or state files. If they are on a drive that has moving parts, your system will tear itself apart. - You have to set up the pserver stuff correctly so that everybody can get read-only access. - A chroot environment would be a Real Good Idea. - And of course you have to have cvsup running from a cron job to keep the repository up to date. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message