"JK" == Jim Kusznir <jkusznir at gmail.com> JK> I mirror for a few different distros, and ubuntu's mirror JK> manager is quite poor as well. I have an account, but JK> can't get to it. When I fail a test of some sort, I get a JK> not-very-useful e-mail, and no way to get more info on JK> what happened. I usually end up just "waiting it out". JK> It would be nice if I get an e-mail allerting me to JK> something being wrong, and then allowing me to log in and JK> see. I agree that having all the information in the e-mail message would be nice, but I haven't had problems getting that information From the log files in my Ubuntu Launchpad account -- maybe you should try to get them to reset your password or something? JK> I also like being able to specify some IP ranges I'm JK> authoritative for. As my mirror is on a university JK> campus, I'd love to be able to enter my campus' IP ranges, JK> and that way ensure that all my campus gets my mirror. So JK> far, none of the OSes I mirror for (I don't mirror Fedora JK> presently) allows me to do that. Very much agreed -- we do just that for Fedora (which makes it easy). For CentOS, I just deploy replacement *.repo files that point to our mirrors, as there doesn't seem to be any other way to ensure that our machines pull from our mirrors, but it would be nice for more casual users to just get updates from the local mirror without having to understand how YUM works. Claire *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly cmc at math.hmc.edu System Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* For System News: http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/news/ or http://twitter.com/hmcmathcomp/. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 188 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-mirror/attachments/20101109/c3e3ff7a/attachment-0004.sig>