and because it's your server, and it's a volunteer job to mirror whatever stuff you mirror, if you happen to need a little bit of downtime for the server to work more reliably (security updates, bugfixes etc), that downtime really shouldn't hurt anybody in the long run :) imho. Lance Davis wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Magnus Morén wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> The mirror at Halmstad University is now (since this morning, UTC) >> officially in the mirror list and I have seen traffic all day. >> >> Question: Is there any procedure to follow if I must schedule downtime >> for the server? (ie downtime for 5 minutes to update kernel *or* >> downtime for one day (or more). > > Well, downtime for 5 minutes noone will notice - unless they are in the > middle of a long download ,get kicked off and they arent in a position > to resume ... > > Downtime for a day or more will be picked up by our systems and the > listing will automatically drop off our website etc. > > In my experience when we are told about small outages - we dont look at > the emails until after the outage has been and gone .... > > Regards > 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