On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Ralph Angenendt <ralph.angenendt at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:55 AM, R. Scott Belford <scott at hosef.org> wrote: >> If you are a mirror manager, R P Herrold, then I appreciate your time >> and energy. I am just a guy who takes responsibility for our mirror >> here in our IP space, and I noticed that the cron jobs I've been >> running for years without issue suddenly deleted ALL of the 5.x tree, >> including isos, and set our mirror timestamp to 5-8-2010. > > I really wonder how that could have happened, at least 5.4 is > available everywhere. The issues we have seen here with systems wiping > the 5.5 tree was non-updated config files which excluded 5.5 from > rsync. Those were 2 machines out of X. I wish I could provide more information or that I had been fiddling with things and could point to a PEBCAK. My cron job and script have not changed for at least a year. All I know is that I was shelled in to the mirror, could see a long cron job running from the msync pool, and observed that the 5.5 directory was getting full. I did a network install of 5.4, and when I started another, it failed. I checked the mirror, and and we had a 5-8-2010 timestamp, no directories above 5.3, and all the 5.x directories were empty. I checked my shell, and the cron job had stopped. I changed to the same upstream mirror we use for debian and ubuntu, and it's slowly refilling. I don't think I'll have any logs of interest. I wish I could report more than an anomaly, but, it's gone and soon forgotten. > > Cheers, > > Ralph Aloha --scott