[CentOS-mirror] How to tell age of mirror

Wed Nov 30 16:11:23 UTC 2011
Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>

On 11/30/2011 10:07 AM, Jim Kusznir wrote:

> I know CentOS runs a web site that checks the mirror age.  I'm curious
> as to how it checks that so that I can check myself locally and verify
> the age of any upstream mirror I'm pulling from.  How can I check the
> age of my mirror locally without depending on the crawler?

check the contents/timestamp of the top-level files:
timestamp.txt
TIME
?

-- rex