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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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