From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 02:52:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 408B616A41F; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:52:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mirrors@tds.net) Received: from mta01.mail.tds.net (mta01.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7311F43D46; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:52:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mirrors@tds.net) Received: from meltdown.workpc.tds.net ([204.246.8.138]) by mta01.mail.tds.net with ESMTP id <20050915025233.PQPU1272.mta01.mail.tds.net@meltdown.workpc.tds.net>; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:52:33 -0500 Received: from meltdown.workpc.tds.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by meltdown.workpc.tds.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id j8F2qh6I017000; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:52:43 -0500 Received: from localhost (mirrors@localhost) by meltdown.workpc.tds.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id j8F2qhxZ016996; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:52:43 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: meltdown.workpc.tds.net: mirrors owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:52:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "mirrors@tds.net" X-X-Sender: mirrors@meltdown.workpc.tds.net To: "Simon L. Nielsen" In-Reply-To: <20050914091843.GA13437@eddie.nitro.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:52:35 -0000 So, If only someone with access to the master server could add a "touch /var/ftp/pub/freebsd/TIMESTAMP" job to run every hour... Then at that point anyone can setup the mirmon stuff on any server.. Shane. On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.09.14 11:34:38 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > In an out-of-band discussion related to ftp/www/cvsup.bg.FreeBSD.org, > > George Danchev mentioned 'mirmon', a utility for monitoring the > > 'up-to-dateness' of project mirror sites based on the timestamp of > > a file touched hourly on the master site: > > > > http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/ > > > > Would it be a good idea to run something like that for the FreeBSD > > mirrors? I think a file with a timestamp updated hourly would not > > put too much stress on the mirrors. > > I think it would be a very good idea. I have been looking a bit at > doing it for the website, but I have never gotten around to doing > anything about it, and I don't really have the time at the moment > either. So IMO it would be great if somebody(tm) did something about > it :-). > >