On Sunday 19 January 2003 01:13 pm, Sascha Noyes wrote: surgical snips. with a broad axe> > > Am I adding a user called "lusr" (whatever) or just making directories in > > my /home or /home/nanook? Either is fine, I just don't want to screw the > > pooch here. > > > > BTW I have one empty 30 GB (Reiser FS formatted) partition called /store > > available on hdb. Would that be more appropriate? Since I'm going to > > mirror the entirety of cooker it may become useful for someone down the > > line. > > No, don't add any user. > /home/lusr/burn/cooker/ is simply where I want to keep my local mirror of > cooker. Sorry, I neglected to mention to simply substitute the path for > whatever path you want to store the files under. So for you that would > probably be /home/nanook/[anydir], or if you want to keep it in > /store/[anydir] that is also fine. It just depends on which > harddrive/partition you want to store the files. My user name (lusr) is > just me trying to be funny. ;-)
I thought it was amusing, that's why I made the smart a$$ comments about it. Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was the way it should be but wasn't positive and screw ups drive me nuts when I'm the instigator. > > > > > The easy part but thanks. I would probably have forgotten how to do it at > > first. Kind of pointless if I don't sync for contribs though, isn't it? > > That's where the "toys" are. :-) > > It certainly is. If you are concerned about you bandwidth and harddrive > space you can also make a file (i called it 'ignore.txt') where you list > all the packages that you are not interested in downloading. So if you are > using it solely as a desktop you can put apache, and other servers in that > file and it shall not sync them. Then you have to use the additional switch > with rsync: Last I looked (about five minutes ago) I was only using a total of roughly 11 GB out of 240. I don't think I'll run out any time soon. :-) > > --exclude-from=/home/nanook/ignore.txt > > The whole thing would then look like this: > > rsync -avrt --progress --delete --exclude-from=/home/nanook/ignore.txt > ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586 /home/nanook/burn/cooker/ Perfect. Thank you. > > Good luck, > Sascha Noyes BTW I figured out how to make 9.1beta2 work with my RealTek 10/100 NIC and Shaw Cable's domain servers by reading the cooker list. Before doing the "upgrade install" and not picking any packages I downloaded the latest initscripts, ran dhcpcd eth0 from console, installed the upgraded initscripts and rebooted. I'm sitting in 9.1beta2 right now. Don't ya love it when a plan comes together? <g> Thanks again Sasha. I'll set the rsync tonight so it can do it's thing while I watch my Sunday night few hours of boob tube. :) Warmest regards; -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 http://counter.li.org To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be! -- Emily Dickinson (on hacking?)
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