Hi all The same thing (wrong time stamp) was occurred by pulling msync.centos.org::CentOS. As a result, several mirror sites in http://mirror-status.centos.org/ indicate 25.7-25.8 days old, because TIME and timestamp.txt by pulling rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS result wrong value at some timing. (timestamp.txt = Thu Apr 9 08:40:01 UTC 2009) $ date -u Tue May 5 02:58:00 UTC 2009 $ date +%s 1241492300 $rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/TIME . $rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/timestamp.txt . $ cat TIME 1239266401 %cat timestamp.txt Thu Apr 9 08:40:01 UTC 2009 Right now, It seems that this was recoverd. $ date -u Tue May 5 03:04:00 UTC 2009 $ date +%s 1241492641 $rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/TIME . $rsync msync.centos.org::CentOS/timestamp.txt . $ cat TIME 1241491801 $cat timestamp.txt Tue May 5 02:50:01 UTC 2009 It seems that the timestamp.txt and TIME pulling by msync.centos.org::CentOS msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd are flip flopping between current value and Thu Apr 9 08:40:01 UTC 2009. Regards Takashi Ichihara 09.4.21 11:21 PM, Takashi Ichihara wrote, > Hi all > > ( I resubmit a mail to the Centos-morror List for your information) > > Tru Huynh wrote, >> > Hi, >> > >> > http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/centos/ is being listed as 12 days late. >> > >> > Any issue on your mirror or on the centos mirror your are >> > pulling from? >> > >> > Best regards, >> > >> > Tru > > Hi > > Yes, we ftp.riken.jp are pulling from the CentOS master site by > rsync -avzH --delete msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd /ftp/Linux/centos > > every 4 hours when the previous rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd > is not running. In addition, we kill the previous rsync once a day if > there > is a previous rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd running and start > a new rsync to msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd . > > A part of the last rsync log is as follows. > >> > Mon Apr 20 23:03:01 UTC 2009 >> > no Force argument is specified >> > now rsyncing to msync.centos.org is starting >> > >> > msync.CentOS.org rsync service (centosb3) >> > --------------------------------------- >> > >> > This service is intended for the sole use of the CentOS worldwide >> mirror network >> > to synchronize mirrors. >> > >> >receiving incremental file list >> >deleting .rsync.log >> >./ >> >TIME >> > timestamp.txt >> > 4.7/apt/i386/base/ > > It seems that the time stamps obtained by pulling the > msync.centos.org::CentOS-incdvd > seems to be sometimes wrong at some conditions. > > At the Centos archive directory at ftp.riken.jp the time stamps are > now as follows. > > [ftp centos]$ 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 >