On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote: > G'Day Lance, > > I am not questioning your design goals or requirements. > > But it took me having to read many response to get a grip as to what > is what. The fact that others may be able to do this with less > reading or more time hacking, is not an idigtment of my competency. > The art of good communication is brevity, accuracy and timeliness. > > I am not trying to score points here, but next time a major effort is > needed, maybe the "thought writing" and desires are popped into a > text editor first and re-read before going out in email - as opposed > to writing as it is thought of direct to email. > > Anyway, I still don't know if I need a seperate IP - but I will > assign one in any case. > > URL: centos-beta.candishosting.com.cn > IP: 211.157.103.176 I have set you up for access Regards Lance > > Cheers, > RF. > > > On 9 Mar 2007, at 4:44 AM, Lance Davis wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Richard Ford wrote: >> >>> So you want us to provide RSYNC services too? >>> >>> That is - if I only run HTTP now - I also have to offer and RSYNC >>> server as well? >>> >>> This can be done, not sure of the logic - but will use more of my CPU >>> cycles. >>> >>> Do we have to provide a free IP on a virtual host or just a virtual >>> host? No matter if I use one, two, three or more aliased IP's on >>> physical server - I always do stuff like this as a vhost for better >>> accounting. >>> >>> Perhaps the centos beta stuff can be more clearly, simply and >>> precisely explained as opposed to a dribble of half expressed emails >>> and equally self serving responses - busy people really don't have >>> time to work out what others are trying to say or how one persons >>> experiences carry over to themselves. Maybe some filtering and >>> formatting between brain and fingers/keyboard? Think of it as a >>> requirements specification, even some rudimentary UML or use cases >>> with event/actions would help, seriously! >>> >>> Failing that, I would settle for a coherent paragraph of the Queens >>> English and a clear technical requirement spec. >> >> I am sorry that you are disappointed with the request others have >> managed to make sense of it and comply. >> >> If you do not want to provide rsync access fine, but your mirror >> will not be able to be a part of beta.centos.org. >> >> The whole point is that all the machines that are mapped on to that >> behave similarily, otherwise it would cause no end of problems for >> end users. >> >> Lance >> >> -- >> uklinux.net - >> The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-mirror mailing list >> CentOS-mirror at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.