I discovered a great use for the large amount of HD space I have sitting on my machine upstairs... apt-proxy!
What it does is allow all of my local machines to take advantage of the 100Mbit LAN in the house, when doing apt-get update/upgrades. All four machines run Woody, so any security updates in the past would require four separate downloads from various Debian mirrors, all over the (relatively) slower DSL line. With this proxy running, I just have all of my systems' /etc/apt/sources.lists point to one machine, and when one system goes to grab a new DEB from the Debian mirrors, it gets stored locally for the others to retrieve over the LAN. A few machines also have Mplayer, Mozilla and some other stuff backported to Woody, so I'll be setting up apt-proxy 'backends' so that any updates to those apps will only need to be pull down the DSL line once, rather than 2 or 3 times. :) http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ Debian Woody users can just "apt-get install apt-proxy" on the system you want everything to be cached on, and then alter your "sources.lists" on all machines to point to it. (Don't forget to update your /etc/hosts.allow if you need to!) It's already cached about 38MB of stuff that all of these boxes want, which means I'm only waiting for ONE huge download, rather than 4! Pretty cool! -bill! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got kids? Get Tux Paint! http://newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ http://newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/ PS - Note: This is different from what Mike Simons did over at Worldcom whe we were working there. There, he actually installed a FULL Debian mirror, which meant even apps that were never installed by any of the various Debian systems were still available locally, on the LAN. I believe he just had a machine pulling full mirror updates on a nightly basis... _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
