Forgive me for being somewhat green here

I have a few more questions. Does this script look reasonable? Is there anything I need to adjust to use the lock files you posted? I want to restrict my mirror to Ver 5 to save on space and bandwidth (and since realistically it probably won't be used by many people other than me).

Please have a look at this script:

#!/bin/sh

# please adjust lock=~/`basename ${0}`.lock

if [ -f ${lock} ]; then # This ensure script didn't die w/o removing lock # Ex: power failure [ -d /proc/`cat ${lock}` ] && exit 0 fi

clean () { rm -fr ${lock} }

trap clean 0

rsync="/usr/bin/rsync -aqHz --delete --delay-updates"

# this should be auto-selected, but the centos mirror script doesn't # support selection by a specific protocol (i.e., rsync) #mirror=mirror.stanford.edu::mirrors/centos #mirror=centos.cs.wisc.edu::centos #mirror=mirrors.usc.edu::centos mirror=us-msync.centos.org::CentOS

ver=5 archlist="i386 x86_64" baselist="os updates" local=/var/www/centos

for arch in $archlist do for base in $baselist do remote=$mirror/$ver/$base/$arch/ $rsync $remote $local/$ver/$base/$arch/ done done

On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Olivier Thauvin wrote:

Le mardi 4 mars 2008, Maeltor a écrit :

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My questions are: If I am to sync 2-4 times a day, how do I setup lock files in a script? Right now i'm just using a single command (listed above). I assume you will most likely tell me to connect to a Tier 1 server to sync from instead of a master server right?

Here an extract of one of my own script:

######################## #!/bin/bash

# please adjust lock=~/`basename ${0}`.lock

if [ -f ${lock} ]; then # This ensure script didn't die w/o removing lock # Ex: power failure [ -d /proc/`cat ${lock}` ] && exit 0 fi

clean () { rm -fr ${lock} }

trap clean 0

rsync ....

clean

########################

Otherwise, to manage all rsync I am writing an application: http://mmm.zarb.org, but I still have finish it (especially doc)... The result can be seen here: http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/mmm

Regards.