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 > -- ================================================== inf. Manuel SUBREDU Network Engineer at RoEduNet Iasi Phone: +40 (232) 201007 +40 (742) 088067 Email: diablo at iasi.roedu.net website: http://www.packages.ro GPG key: http://www.packages.ro/diablo.gpg.txt ==================================================