Re: to find fastest debian mirror

hi Nice program. thanks Adding the -s 1024 flag to ping would make the packets closer to the size of FTP packets, and make the results more accurate. well, indeed I had done that after sending it I would suggest that the program create its own temporary directory under /tmp and delete

sort_mirrors_by_speed v 0.2

hi since I had a few nice comments about the above script, I post a second revised version. this script takes as its argument the file README.mirrors (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp sites), extracts the list of hosts and pings them all (it takes roughly 60 seconds, since it

to find fastest debian mirror

hello to everybody I had a strange slowdown on the internet, and I wanted to locate the fastest debian mirror for me so I wrote a simple shell script that I call sort_mirrors_by_speed this script takes as its argument the file README.mirrors (that can be downloaded from the debian ftp

HE: color in xterm and jed

Hi to everybody Maybe there is an easy answer to this but I couldnt find it When I used Slackware there was a command like ``color-xterm'' and I would have an xterm with color support In debian if I run ls --color=auto or jed (with ANSI_COLORS enabled)I see colors; but if I run a script

non-US , RE:ssh

What about having that all debian mirrors who can contain a non-us package have a directory called non-US so that we may set our dpkg-ftp to stable free contrib non-US and load all non US packages automagically? this is not so now BTW in ftp.de.debian.org I could set Enter space