From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 13:49:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA20484 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from broken.whitefang.com (shadows@broken.whitefang.com [199.173.153.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20415 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:49:11 -0700 (PDT) From: shadows@whitefang.com Received: from localhost (shadows@localhost) by broken.whitefang.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA05218 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:49:30 +0300 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: broken.whitefang.com: shadows owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 23:49:29 +0300 (AST) Reply-To: shadows@whitefang.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mirroring FreeBSD Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've checked the web page for information on mirroring FreeBSD distributions and such and havent found anything. Now I know that its free software and there are no legalities involved as long as I dont go around renaming everything to credit me and make mucho bunzunkos out of it ;) Anyway The mirroring I wish to do is to my local ISP for our local users to download FreeBSD. I _dont_ want to be placed on the list of official mirrors. This mirror site will be in 'Kuwait' yes out of all places. But unfortuanetly our net-link is limited here and users can't just ftp FreeBSD from the US without waiting a few days (I got the cigarette butts to prove it). I do have access to a superfast link which will allow me to do this, and space on the ISP's anon ftp server. So I'm basically asking, can I just setup fetch scripts to start mirroring software and basically not get any official 'ok', or do I need to go through some 'official channels' to mirror the software? The sooner the answer the sooner the budding Unix hackers here will get off my back :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ShadowS WhiteFang Unix Software Development Thamer Al-Herbish And Consultancy. shadows@whitefang.com Specialising in Custom Network Applications for Unix Systems. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------