On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 at 21:13, Horatio B. Bogbindero wrote: > hello dude,
William, this is so not you. Hahaha. Singular pa. ;> > i have got brains for mush tonight and am nothing thinking right yet. William, this is indeed not you. Who is at the keyboard? /s/nothing/not/ /s/brains for mush/mush for brains/ (Kidding my friend) ;> > must be the semestral break syndrome. Lucky you. Mine's not yet begun. And already I have mush for brains. I have two reports that I have yet to do. And they're all due tomorrow. I've got an hour and a half. ;> > anyway, i would like to keep a sufficiently updated copy of the > updates of the RedHat site for their latest RH of course. what is the > best way to do it? 0. The best way to do it is to use Debian and "apt-get dist-upgrade". Just kidding. 1. You can use wget. But this isn't very efficient with updates (although it's pretty good at grabbing a site once). IMHO. 2. You can use lftp. But again I have the same comments with this as wget. 3. You can use rsync. I find that this is the fastest when it comes to updating, and I use this myself to update my repositories of the LDP, the Mandrake and the RedHat updates. My script runs nightly, or whenever I decide to run it outside of schedule. Attached please find my crazy bash script, update-mirrors. 4. You can regularly buy Update Collection CDs from me. Aside from your choice of distribution updates, you get the latest kernel, Alan Cox patch, and XFS CVS tree complete with userland tools. This is the absolute best. Aside from not wasting your online time downloading crazy updates, you help a fellow PLUGger earn some money for his family business (yeah, that's me). What's more, if you're interested in a prepaid (yan naman ang uso ngayon eh) subscription program, I'm willing to whip up a deal with you. And it'll get delivered to your doorstep. Unfortunately there will be extra courier charges. But the more CDs you want to have regularly shipped to you, the lower the per-CD cost of shipping becomes! (Man, I'm sound waaay too marketing here). ;> --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator :: The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key: <http://jijo.leathercollection.ph/jijo.gpg>
#! /bin/sh RSYNC='/usr/bin/rsync' RSYNC_PROXY='127.0.0.1:3128' RSYNC_OPTIONS="--archive --quiet --compress --delete --copy-unsafe-links" HOST_LDP="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" LDIR_LDP="/var/lib/www/ldp/" RDIR_LDP="ldp_mirror/" HOST_PSU=carroll.cac.psu.edu LDIR_MANDRAKESNF72="/file-library/mirror/updates/mandrake/snf7.2/" RDIR_MANDRAKESNF72="mandrake/updates/snf7.2/" LDIR_MANDRAKE80="/file-library/mirror/updates/mandrake/8.0/" RDIR_MANDRAKE80="mandrake/updates/8.0/" LDIR_MANDRAKE81="/file-library/mirror/updates/mandrake/8.1/" RDIR_MANDRAKE81="mandrake/updates/8.1/" LDIR_REDHAT71="/file-library/mirror/updates/redhat/7.1/" RDIR_REDHAT71="redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/" # web mirrors $RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTIONS rsync://$HOST_LDP/$RDIR_LDP $LDIR_LDP # distribution updates $RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTIONS --exclude '/.*' rsync://$HOST_PSU/$RDIR_MANDRAKE80 $LDIR_MANDRAKE80 $RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTIONS --exclude '/.*' rsync://$HOST_PSU/$RDIR_MANDRAKE81 $LDIR_MANDRAKE81 $RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTIONS --exclude '/.*' rsync://$HOST_PSU/$RDIR_MANDRAKESNF72 $LDIR_MANDRAKESNF72 $RSYNC $RSYNC_OPTIONS --exclude '/.*' rsync://$HOST_PSU/$RDIR_REDHAT71 $LDIR_REDHAT71
