From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263041AbUE1Io2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265964AbUE1Io2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:44:28 -0400 Received: from mail.eris.qinetiq.com ([128.98.1.1]:52128 "HELO mail.eris.qinetiq.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263041AbUE1Io0 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 04:44:26 -0400 From: Mark Watts Organization: QinetiQ To: Linux Kernel Mail List Subject: Re: ftp.kernel.org Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:41:38 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200405280941.38784.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >They switched to vsftpd very recently ... presumably then. > > That would explain it. The default is to turn it off. > > >Why would you mirror via ftp, instead of rsync anyway? > > I have more control with mirror. And I've been using mirror for > *ahem* a decade. I've been using rsync for mirroring debian, but > it's slow and often fails to complete. Mirror has never let me > down ('tho it has deleted entire archives before *grin*) Agreed - fmirror is so much more reliable than rsync (imho) that it makes rsync into a worst-case option for retrieving files. - -- Mark Watts Senior Systems Engineer QinetiQ Trusted Information Management Trusted Solutions and Services group GPG Public Key ID: 455420ED -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAtvtCBn4EFUVUIO0RAl6dAJ9C+1Xu6nIMTFI3ggchYyEAXTu7fACgm9Vt 1VZ6sy9Ra/iK6MvCkxRUxVk= =3PkP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----