From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Jan 29 1: 1:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from columbus.cris.net (columbus.cris.net [212.110.128.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10D0937B404; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 01:01:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ark.cris.net (ark.cris.net [212.110.128.68]) by columbus.cris.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29651; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:01:15 +0200 (EET) Received: (from phantom@localhost) by ark.cris.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g0T90j517685; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:00:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:00:45 +0200 From: Alexey Zelkin To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www/en/news/press.xml Message-ID: <20020129110045.A15146@ark.cris.net> References: <20020129062017.GA37326@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20020129062017.GA37326@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:20:18AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, This reminds me that Wolfram did a backup copies of press artiles and stored them somethere in case if owner's site was down or article gone. But this is almost two years old memories. And I not sure did he told about idea or he actually did it. Wolfram, any comments ? Anyway, it could be good to resurrect or implement this idea into life now. (IMHO) On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:20:18AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > After a bit of chatting with Diane Bruce on the usual IRC place, I've > rolled a small script that checks www/en/news/press.xml for dead > links. You can see how I try to test the links semi-automatically at > the script's source > [ http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/scripts/deadlink.sh ] > > Those links that are marked in the logfile created as FAILED, I try to > check with a browser too, just in case fetch(1) fails but the page is > still there. The recent commits to www/en/news/press.xml are a result > of running this and verifying that the links are broken. > > Some of the articles referenced are still there, but have been moved > by the site owners to their "archives". When I cna find an article in > these archives, I just update the link. For those links that I remove > with "Cannot be found, even if I search the archives of the site" feel > free to correct me by reviving the article links and updating the > links, if you happen to find the correct pointer. > > Cheers, > > -- > Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} > FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ > FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message