re the machine finally arrived (thanks to weissmannduder) last week. thanks to fkr it runs and now it receives an rsync every hour from the master cvs repository:
anon...@anoncvs.aeriebsd.org:/cvs SSH fingerprint: (RSA) 1024 9c:21:ae:10:28:e2:50:3b:a8:ef:b8:ff:75:48:65:9c (DSA) 1024 c8:a7:f2:73:bd:6b:14:4d:44:0f:5a:b8:17:1c:13:0d enjoy! cu -- paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)