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Rsync on Windows & Mirroring Best Practices
by Mote, Ty R. 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Greetings, I am new to the idea of mirroring, but I want to support CentOS by sharing some of my bandwidth. I have read over the CentOS Mirroring HowTo and set everything up as it states. However, the instructions suggest that the reader contacts the mailing list for additional instructions for using "lock files", etc. I have Rsync working on my Windows Server 2003 box in daemon mode. Everything appear to be functional. I would assume that I can now schedule updates using "Scheduled Tasks" in place of CRON. Is this accurate? Lastly, I would like to mirror only the i386 & i386-64bit data (including DVDs, and SRPMs). Would anyone have advice to lend for doing that? Thank you for your assistance! -- Ty R. Mote Assistant Director of Technology Krum Independent School District http://www.krumisd.net O: 940/482-6000x283 C: 806/290-1313 F: 940/482-9951 ty.mote(a)krumisd.net

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Mirror Size
by Brian Elliott Finley 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

I want to add CENTOS to the list of software that we mirror at Argonne National Laboratory: http://mirror.anl.gov/ I've looked through the mirror pages (http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=22) but was unable to find information on the size of a full mirror. How much space do I need to make available? Cheers, -Brian -- Brian Elliott Finley Linux Strategist, CIS Desk: 630.252.4742 Cell: 630.631.6621

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A new Centos mirror at nic.funet.fi
by Centos Mirror managers at NIC 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

Hi, I've set up a new centos mirror at the nic.funet.fi alias ftp.funet.fi (ftp.funet.fi is the server from where Linux was launched 17.9.1991 making us the oldest linux distribution server I guess) during this summer (holidays slowed finalizing it a bit...). In July there seemed to be most times I tried manually problems getting any response from the msync servers, now it seems to be doing OK. HTTP.: http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ FTP..: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ Rsync: rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/centos.org/ (BitTorrent is currently under testing, I'm interested in comparing it's performance and statistics with FTP if anyone has those to share. I've been experimenting with PermaSeed but that requires using the Osprey tracker so unless you're using it I'd have to generate separate torrent files or try some other approach.) Version..............: All (I use the rsync settings recommended in the Mirror HOWTO which I guess equals All) Architectures........: All Direct DVD Downloads.: Yes please, but it seems I'd need first access to my-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd to make it happen. Could that be arranged? Other mirrors could rsync from us too as long as we are not the only source. I'd hope the 2GB limit will gradually disappear... It's practically the same bits as in the set of CDs so if most sites supported DVDs I'd suppose the load would not rise much (rsync, pureftpd, http 2.2.x and Solaris 10 at least seems to be working combination). Preference for mirrors is for nearby (low latency) sites, european late night (but do sync more often if you need to) and the academic community in case we'd need to be preferential someday... Our primary target audience is the finnish academic and research community to which we'll always give preference and best latency. Please let us know if and when you mirror us regularly and you might someday get better service or service break announcements. The GeoIP mapping sounds interesting. We currently provide at least Fedora and Ubuntu DVD:s without major problems to everyone.. Synchronised..: 4 times/day (23 22,3,8,17 * * * currently, but could change) Location......: Finland, EU Bandwidth cap.: 1 Gbit/s (It's a NIC-dedicated network connected on a Juniper router that's connected to the Funet backbone which in turn is connected to NORDunet, Geant, Internet2, FICIX etc. with many gigabits) In practice the speed one gets depends on latencies, number of users and how well the 16GB memory can buffer the files). Organization.......: CSC / Funet (Finnish University and Research Network) Contact email.: centos-mirror(a)nic.funet.fi Main URL......: http://www.nic.funet.fi/ Service window: 15-19 Finnish time on Mondays (for non-urgent Funet related service work, not every monday of course) but breaks and reboots on other times are also possible. Harri Salminen nic.funet.fi coordinator

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instability of msync.centos.org::CentOS (4.4 dir)
by Takash Ichihara 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi there, Recently I notified that the CentOS 4.4 directory appeared and disappeared periodically in our mirror server (ftp.riken.jp). After the investigation, I notified that at the CentOS Rsync Master server msync.centos.org::CentOS the 4.4 directory seems to be disappeared sometimes in rsync connection. Since we are mirroring CentOS archives from msync.centos.org::CentOS using "rsync -aqzH --delete" options, when the 4.4 directly cannot be found at msync.centos.org::CentOS at the rsync mirror period, all the 4.4 archives mirrored so far are deleted immediately. And then in the next time when the 4.4 directory is found at msync.centos.org::CentOS, the rsyncing of 4.4 starts from the beginning. This repetition seems to raise the overload of the centos rsync master server (msync.centos.org) For the temporary solution, I have removed --delete option in rsync command and switched the rsync server to us-msync server. Could someone please investigate this problem ? Thank you in advance. Takashi Ichihara

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be a mirror in Taiwan
by cywang 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

HTTP: http://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/CentOS/ ftp: ftp://ftp.cse.yzu.edu.tw/pub/CentOS/ from Computer Science & Engineering of Yuan Ze University in Taiwan ( http://www.cse.yzu.edu.tw ) how often synchronizing the mirror network: two times per day city/state/country : Jung-Li , Taoyuan , Taiwan bandwidth: Gigabit 1000Mbit name and link to the sponsoring organization : Computer Science & Engineering of Yuan Ze University in Taiwan http://www.cse.yzu.edu.tw email address of preferred contact : yzcswang(a)gmail.com

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CentOS-4 to the mirrors
by Johnny Hughes 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

CentOS-4 is syncing to the mirrors, but it seems that there are a lot of out of date mirrors. Can everyone check that their mirror is properly syncing? You can check the status of your mirror here: http://mirror-status.centos.org/ Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS Developer

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Politics
by Zenon Panoussis 28 Aug '06

28 Aug '06

The mirror monitor at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ says "taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on. The common name of the island however, used universally except perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not imply any siding with either political stance, while adding "province of china" certainly does. So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work? Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old problem over the heads of those affected by it? Z

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[CSL #306737] Address Update for UW-Madison CSL Centos Mirror
by Jacob Ela 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Greetings, We've changed the addresses for our mirrored centos content. The old addresses: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/ ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/ rsync://mirror.cs.wisc.edu::centos change to: http://centos.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/ ftp://centos.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/centos/ rsync://centos.cs.wisc.edu::centos If this could be updated before the new versions are released, we would appreciate it. Thanks! Jacob Ela Mirror Administration CSL, UW-Madison

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Release for 3.8 and 4.4 coming soon
by Karanbir Singh 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi guys, just a heads up - 3.8 is going to be out in the next few days, followed by 4.4 shortly after! the usual process will stay in place, for a few days - there will be 3.7 + 3.8 out there, then 3.7 will go away. same with 4.3 and 4.4, a few days after 4.4 is released, 4.3 will go away and the symlinks change accordingly. our usual plan is to drop the older release around 14 days after the new one has gone out ( to make sure all mirrors are sync'd and most users are able to do any repo movement they need. And once again, Thanks for all the mirrors out there! -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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init doesn't work after upgrade
by E.Tenneriello 21 Aug '06

21 Aug '06

Hello, this morning I started an upgrade process on my server CentOS 4.2 (Command: yum -y upgrade). Unfortunately after a little time, a black-out happened and I don't know if the installation was completed. The restart of the machine started automatically, and appeared an error similar to the following: mount: error 22 mounting ext3 mount: error 2 mounting none switchroot: mount failed: 22 umount /initrd/dev failed: 2 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init After a quarter of hour, I rebooted the server, but now the init doesn't start up many processes, like sshd, and I'm not able to login. How can I solve my problem? Have I use an other distro to enter? Or do I need to reinstall the system avoiding formatting any partitions? Thanks Eugenia Tenneriello PS: I see version was upgraded to 4.3

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Service hiccup
by William Dunn 16 Aug '06

16 Aug '06

We had a slight problem with http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/ overnight (US night). We moved the rack, and when the server came back up, the apache server didn't start. It's up and running now; will it automatically be added back into the list? Oh, and where's that page where you can check status? -- William Dunn Unix / Linux Administrator Virginia Tech Computer Science Department wdunn(a)cs.vt.edu / 540-231-3167

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Public Mirror (wuarchive)
by Mark Bober 15 Aug '06

15 Aug '06

Now available: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/linux/distributions/centos Mark Bober CTS Washington University in St. Louis

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mirror.nsc.liu.se down (evil thunderstorm)
by Peter Kjellström 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

It's unclear how bad the situation is but we're talking days not hours. /Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellström | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se

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FW: New Public Mirror
by William Duke 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

I forgot to add the Location Orlando, Fl Mirror: omnispring.com Rsync://mirror.omnispring.com::centos http://centos.omnispring.com <http://centos.omnispring.com/> ftp://centos.omnispring.com <ftp://centos.omnispring.com/> --exclude testing/ \ --exclude isos-dvd/ \ --exclude s390/ \ --exclude s390x \ We currently have several 0C3 currently there is no BW limits set as long as the mirror is not abused it will stay that way. http://Omnispring.com <http://omnispring.com/> donates the bandwidth for this mirror This mirror is maintained by William Duke bduke(a)dukemotorsports.net

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New Public Mirror
by William Duke 14 Aug '06

14 Aug '06

Mirror: omnispring.com Rsync://mirror.omnispring.com::centos http://centos.omnispring.com <http://centos.omnispring.com/> ftp://centos.omnispring.com <ftp://centos.omnispring.com/> --exclude testing/ \ --exclude isos-dvd/ \ --exclude s390/ \ --exclude s390x \ We currently have several 0C3 currently there is no BW limits set as long as the mirror is not abused it will stay that way. http://Omnispring.com <http://omnispring.com/> donates the bandwidth for this mirror This mirror is maintained by William Duke bduke(a)dukemotorsports.net

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New mirror
by Jeremy Countryman 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Mirror: http://mirror.myfasthost.com/centos/ Sync: 2 times daily Location: Dallas, Texas Bandwidth: ~ 10Mbps Version: All Sponsoring organization is myFASTHost Web Hosting Solutions - http://www.myFASTHost.com Contact: support at myfasthost dot com ------------------------------ Thank you, Jeremy Countryman myFASTHost Administrator jcountryman(a)myfasthost.com

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FW: [CentOS-mirror] New mirror
by Thomas Petersen 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Please update the below listing to reflect the following changes: Mirror: ftp://mirror.myriadnetwork.com + http://mirror.myriadnetwork.com/centos Bandwidth: 100Mbps Version: 3 & 4 i386 + x86_64 architectures Thanks. Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-mirror-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-mirror-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Petersen > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:43 PM > To: centos-mirror(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS-mirror] New mirror > > Mirror: ftp://mirror.myriadnetwork.com > Sync: 4 times daily > Location: Ashburn, Virginia > Bandwidth: ~20Mbps > Version: 3 & 4 i386 architecture only > > Sponsoring organization is Myriad Network - > http://www.myriadnetwork.com > > Contact: support at myriadnetwork dot com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >

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dvd rsync target - conection refused
by Kasparek Tomas 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi, for last several days I got connection refused for my rsync script: /etc/cron.hourly/mirror-centos.sh: rsync: failed to connect to msync-dvd.centos.org: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94) the script does: /usr/bin/rsync -rlptzHv --delete --bwlimit=2000 \ msync-dvd.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd /var/www/html/mirrors/centos/ But it works about 80% of time, as the content gets synchronized and acording to web stats (http://mirror-status.centos.org/#cz) Any idea what's wrong? Thanks -- Tomas Kasparek, PhD student E-mail: kasparek(a)fit.vutbr.cz CVT FIT VUT Brno, BI/140a Web: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~kasparek Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Fax: +420 54114-1270 Brno, Czech Republic Phone: +420 54114-1220 ICQ: 293092805 jabber: tomas.kasparek(a)jabber.cz GPG: 2F1E 1AAF FD3B CFA3 1537 63BD DCBE 18FF A035 53BC

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dvd iso sync arrangements
by Lance Davis 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Due to unknowns trying to download dvd.iso images from our msync-dvd servers we have now had to restrict the rsync target to those mirrors that we know are syncing. We want to restrict it further to those that are providing master sync service for other mirrors, this will allow us to plan for future releases to be able to preset the dvd isos onto those master mirrors before release and dedicate bandwidth for that. The current mirrors that are allowed to sync by the config are :- #pacific.net.au 61.8.0.17 #kernel.org 204.152.191.4 204.152.191.36 #upce.cz 195.113.124.9 #mirrorservice.org 212.219.56.140 #esslingen.de 129.143.116.10 #ncnu.edu.tw 163.22.12.51 #vutbr.cz 147.229.176.19 #ftp.chg.ru 193.233.9.194 Of those only 4 - kernel.org, mirrorservice.org, esslingen.de and chg.ru have told us that they allow rsync, which has to be a prerequisite for being a master sync mirror. If any of those are not happy to be listed as a master sync mirror for the dvd isos , or have limits on bandwidth or resources that may be affected then please advise us. We would be grateful if the others would change their config to sync the dvd iso images from one of those, which will probably provide faster download than our servers anyway. We will start to list all mirrors that carry dvd iso images on the website and will shortly redirect browsing on mirror.centos.org to those local mirrors that have the dvd isos and are up to date, as we do for cd isos. The main difference is that we will only check currency of mirrors that are flagged in the database as carrying dvds. We do still need more master sync mirrors but you will not be able to sync the target without first notifying us (or do initial sync against one of the sync masters and then request access - as we would prefer sync masters to eventually sync directly from our servers). In particular csmb.edu has said that they will be a master sync mirror but does not appear to be syncing the incdvd target. Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.

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new mirror in india
by Prof. P. Sriram 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

announcing a new mirror in india urls: http http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos ftp ftp://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos rsync rsync://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos synced 3 times a day located in chennai, india bandwidth E3 (34 mbps) sponsoring organization: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras url of sponsor: http://www.iitm.ac.in -- sriram

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New (old) mirror: ftp.freepark.org
by Attila Nagy 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hello, I would like to announce a new-old CentOS mirror. Old, because it is here long ago, and new, because backed by a community effort, we could get some new machines lately. The URLs: ftp://ftp.freepark.org/pub/linux/distributions/centos/ http://ftp.freepark.org/pub/linux/distributions/centos/ rsync://ftp.freepark.org/linux/centos/ Also, you can access this archive via an SMB/CIFS mount (as guest) and via webdav. We are using eu-msync.centos.org for mirroring. The mirroring is done with 4 hours delays, so one mirror run, 4 hours of silence, then another run. Other characteristics: country: Hungary city: Budapest operated by: Free Software Network foundation sponsored by: T-Online Hungary bandwidth: 1 Gbps Thanks, -- Attila Nagy e-mail: Attila.Nagy(a)fsn.hu Free Software Network (FSN.HU) phone: +3630 306 6758 http://www.fsn.hu/

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new mirror
by Sjöholm Pasi 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

http://centos.siirappi.com/centos/ ftp://centos.siirappi.com/centos/ version : 3-4 arch : i386,x86_64 DVD: no name: centos.siirappi.com location: Finland bandwidth cap : 4Mbps frequency of updates : 2 times/day contact email: centos(a)siirappi.com

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Add a new mirror site
by hmy 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

hello,list We had make a mirror for the centos distribution.and want add to your mirror list.this is the mirror site infomation. URL:http://mirror.vmmatrix.net/CentOS/ Update frequency: 2 times per daylocation:China/Shanghai Only support HTTP ,no ftp and rsync bandwidth:100Mbps sponsoring organization: vmmatrix.com IP address of public http server:61.172.246.167-61.172.246.172, rsync client use 61.172.246.175 Thanks! Huang mingyou 2006-07-12

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New mirror in Hong Kong
by Hostlink(HK) Limited 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi, I've setuped a new CentOS mirror in Hong Kong, the details as below: URL: http://centos.hostlink.com.hk FTP: ftp://centos.hostlink.com.hk Rsync : No Version : All Architectures : All Direct DVD Downloads : No Region : Asia, China City : Hong Kong Sponsoring organization name: Hostlink(HK) Limited Sponsoring organization website: http://www.hostlink.com.hk Bandwidth cap : 100Mbit/sec Frequency of updates : 3 times/day Contact Email: ken(a)hostlink.com.hk Best regards, Ken Tang Hostlink(HK) Ltd. Email: ken(a)hostlink.com.hk

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not listed as carrying dvd iso's
by netops 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

the previous message prompted me to check to see if we were still listed. I saw it says we don't carry the DVD ISO's. We do carry them : ) http://mirrors.csumb.edu/centos/4.3/isos-dvd/ Thx Paul Hall Network Operations Analyst IT @ CSUMB / Network Operations (831) 582-HELP paul(a)csumb.edu

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