Hi all ( I resubmit a mail to the Centos-morror List for your information) Tru Huynh wrote, > > Hi, > > > > http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/ is being listed as 12 days late. > > > > Any issue on your mirror or on the centos mirror your are > > pulling from? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Tru Hi Yes, we ftp.riken.jp are pulling from the CentOS master site by rsync -avzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd /ftp/Linux/centos every 4 hours when the previous rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd is not running. In addition, we kill the previous rsync once a day if there is a previous rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd running and start a new rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd . A part of the last rsync log is as follows. > > Mon Apr 20 23:03:01 UTC 2009 > > no Force argument is specified > > now rsyncing to msync.centos.org is starting > > > > msync.CentOS.org rsync service (centosb3) > > --------------------------------------- > > > > This service is intended for the sole use of the CentOS worldwide > mirror network > > to synchronize mirrors. > > > >receiving incremental file list > >deleting .rsync.log > >./ > >TIME > > timestamp.txt > > 4.7/apt/i386/base/ It seems that the time stamps obtained by pulling the msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd seems to be sometimes wrong at some conditions. At the Centos archive directory at ftp.riken.jp the time stamps are now as follows. [ftp centos]$ pwd /ftp/Linux/centos [ftp centos]$ date -u Tue Apr 21 13:21:06 UTC 2009 [ftp centos]$ cat TIME 1239274801 [ftp centos]$ cat timestamp.txt Thu Apr 9 11:00:01 UTC 2009 [ftp centos]$ ----------------- Manual rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd/ right now resulted [ftp centos]$ pwd /ftp/Linux/centos rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd/TIME . rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd/timestamp.txt . [ftp centos]$ cat TIME 1239274801 [ftp centos]$ cat timestamp.txt Thu Apr 9 11:00:01 UTC 2009 [ftp centos]$ date -u Tue Apr 21 13:24:29 UTC 2009 ----------------------------------------- Manual rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS/ right now resulted rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/timestamp.txt . rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/TIME . [ftp centos]$ cat TIME 1240320001 [ftp centos]$ cat timestamp.txt Tue Apr 21 13:20:01 UTC 2009 [ftp centos]$ --------------------------------------------- I remember that the mirror ages of ftp.riken.jp was 3 hours yesterday or the day before yesterday. But now there are several sites which mirror ages are 12.1-12.2 days now including ftp.riken.jp. So I think the time stamps obtained by msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd is sometimes wrong (12.x days ago) while timestamps obtained by msync.centos.org::CentOS is always correct. For the temporary solution to this problem, I added the rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/timestamp.txt /ftp/Linux/centos/ rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/TIME /ftp/Linux/centos/ after the rsync -avzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd /ftp/Linux/centos command in the daily mirror script. Regards, Takashi Ichihara