On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 04:37:19PM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Created a new HowTo on running your own local mirror: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CreateLocalMirror > > Comments and (constructive :-) criticism are invited. > nice writeup, just my 2 cents: consider adding a lockfile if the script is used automatically in a crontab ;) ... # try to create the lock and check the outcome LOCKFILE=/var/run/rsync-home.lock lockfile -r 0 ${LOCKFILE} 1>/dev/null 2>&1 status=$? if [ ${status} -ne 0 ] ;then echo "Another instance already running. Aborting." exit 1 fi trap "rm ${LOCKFILE}" EXIT # body of the script here ... other examples are also available in the centos-mirror mailing list archives. Cheers, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20090405/10ed2022/attachment-0004.sig>