On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angenendt@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:55 AM, R. Scott Belford scott@hosef.org wrote:
If you are a mirror manager, R P Herrold, then I appreciate your time and energy. I am just a guy who takes responsibility for our mirror here in our IP space, and I noticed that the cron jobs I've been running for years without issue suddenly deleted ALL of the 5.x tree, including isos, and set our mirror timestamp to 5-8-2010.
I really wonder how that could have happened, at least 5.4 is available everywhere. The issues we have seen here with systems wiping the 5.5 tree was non-updated config files which excluded 5.5 from rsync. Those were 2 machines out of X.
I wish I could provide more information or that I had been fiddling with things and could point to a PEBCAK. My cron job and script have not changed for at least a year. All I know is that I was shelled in to the mirror, could see a long cron job running from the msync pool, and observed that the 5.5 directory was getting full. I did a network install of 5.4, and when I started another, it failed. I checked the mirror, and and we had a 5-8-2010 timestamp, no directories above 5.3, and all the 5.x directories were empty. I checked my shell, and the cron job had stopped.
I changed to the same upstream mirror we use for debian and ubuntu, and it's slowly refilling. I don't think I'll have any logs of interest. I wish I could report more than an anomaly, but, it's gone and soon forgotten.
Cheers,
Ralph
Aloha
--scott