>>>>> "bh" == Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bh> On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:34, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>> At 5/7/2002 01:24 AM +0200, you wrote:
>> >Hit the nearest ftp site for the Powertools and get the rpm for mirror.
>> >Install it and edit /etc/mirror.defaults to suit you.
>> >Then create a config file to mirror Red Hat's updates.
>> >You can then run `mirror <config_file>` every once in a while
>> >(what I do at home) or put it in /etc/cron.daily (what I do at work).
>>
>> Try to avoid doing this on a daily basis; much better is to do it once a
>> week during the middle of the night, and then trigger it manually when you
>> know there is a particular update you want.
>>
>> Mirroring daily seriously increases the bandwidth drain on the mirror
>> servers (especially since you get bunches of packages you don't even have
>> installed!), thereby raising everyone's cost of supporting Linux in general
>> and Red Hat in particular. And BTW, the more people that do this, the
>> slower everyone's downloads become.
>>
>> In short, it's rude as hell. Ideally, get only the updates *you* need by
>> using up2date. If you wish to mirror or need to mirror, then make sure that
>> you are supplying more than just one or two computers so that you don't hog
>> a bunch of Net space for kicks.
bh> This makes it sound like I am downloading each file every time I run
bh> mirror. I am not. I only get new files once and then only check it
bh> each time I run mirror. I have not put it in a cron job but run it
bh> whenever I get a notification there is an update. I have intended to
bh> run it nightly though. Am I missing something? I also use :
bh> recurse_hard=true
bh> because in my reading I found references that it takes a little more
bh> bandwidth but MUCH less processing time on the remote machine. Is this
bh> true in your opinion?
bh> we have around 40 redhat boxes and about to ad 10 more and to think
bh> that everytime I add another I would have to re-download the updates is
bh> seriously crazy. I only have a dsl connection at the office.
bh> If I am in error in my understanding of how mirror works please
bh> enlighten me.
Nope, IMHO you are doing what you should instead of running something
like up2date on each machine.
Not sure how this thread really got started, but I also have a local
mirror of updates which I use to update my complete network, along
with a couple of other networks locally that I provide support.
I only download new updates when they are added to the updates, and
in my case I even check for large rpm updates, that I don't require
and don't download those.
--
Ray Curtis
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