[CentOS-mirror] 4.3 free drive space

[Subredu Manuel]

or you can use simba ;) (http://simba.packages.ro)

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:52:18AM -0500, William Dunn wrote:
> 
> Just as an aside:  This is an excellent time to implement a lock file 
> system.  As it says on the mirror site,
> 
> "We highly recommend the use of lock files in your cron script so that 
> you don't spawn multiple connections which is hard on our servers and on 
> your mirror. If you don't know how to do this, please ask the list."
> 
> Lock files are a good thing (tm).  I'm sure there's a better way to do 
> it, but I'm doing the following:
> 
> if [ -f /some/path/lockfile ]
> then
> exit
> fi
> touch /some/path/lockfile
> rsync -blah -blah us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /my/mirror
> rm -f /some/path/lockfile
> 
> 
> ~Will
> Virginia Tech CS dept techstaff
> 

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