On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/22/2010 04:44 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: >> If all mirrors would add >> /**/.* >> to their rsync exclude list, we wouldn't see these sorts of things. > > please dont do that - there are valid and required dot files inthe mirror. > eg: .discinfo > .treeinfo What are these required for? We've never carried those files. It doesn't seem to have caused any problems. Apache, in its default config as installed by Red Hat / CentOS, won't show such files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________