On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> Anyone knows why the Slackware, GNU and Loki mirrors vanished > and why the Debian mirroring is broken? (I've missed the messages > posted to the list in the past 2 weeks since my mail system was down, > so if this was announced, could anyone please tell me what it was > about?) perhaps that's a reason why to leave your email on a reliable system ;) anyway, the mirroring partition has vanished when the new kernel (that you once isntalled) was finally rebooted into use. booting back to the older kernel after re-instaling it) did not help, so i had to re-create everything from scratch. the vanishing occured saterday 2 weeks ago (i think). the re-creation started on last friday. > P.S. the crontab entries for mirroring stuff like Loki are commented > out, so someone certainly touched it. please don't touch these crontab entries without coordinating with me, or else we'll step on each otehr's tose. since you weren't here last weekend (how was staying at base, btw?) i had to handle the mirroring myself. current status: 1. the entries that aren't commented out in crontab are already syncronised. 2. the entries that have 6 '#' signs in their commenting aer currently being synchronized. 3. the rest weren't handled yet - are waiting until the debian mirror ends (it's been running since monday, i think). 4. the mirroring from redhat is ultimaetly slow. i had to copy RH's 7.2 ISOs from tau's ftp server (which took about 30 minutes per ISO) - do you know of a location from which i could _quickly_ copy redhat's upadtes? everyne i saw seems to copy either only some version of the distribution, or all but not the updates (which are on a different server now - didn't tp maintainers notice that?). if not, we'll be lucky to have the updates here yb next weekend :) > P.P.S. there are currently 41G free on the disk while there were no > more than 10G free when I left. you can look at it this way - there was 0GB used 2 weeks ago, and about 25GB used right now. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
