Setting up a SuSE-YOU compatible ftp mirror.
Hey all, I deal with several suse boxes and regularly get updates for them. One day I realized that it was beneficial for both me and (and other suse users with less bandwidth then me) to set up a small local FTP mirror on our LAN. So I set up a little bash script to use wget in mirror mode. It runs at night, when fewer people are on the server (Please note that this is not an aggressive script, it hardly ever gets more then one or two RPMs a night). Anyway, because I all my boxes are either 7.0 or 7.1, I don't mirrors the whole site, but only the 7.0 and 7.1 sub directories of the /pub/suse/i386/update and KDE2 directories. I have set up anonymous FTP on the computer that's hosting the "mirror" and SuSE-YOU can log in just fine, but it is obviously looking for something I don't have, because the following error happens: The little console says: Starting download of patch descriptions from 192.168.0.80. Connected failed : File not found on server Disconnected Then a dialog box pops up that says Can't get patches from FTP server. Please try to get patches from another SuSE FTP server. What is it that I'm missing? TIA ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
Hi, Did you try using "mirror" perl script? It is much better than using wget to mirror ftp sites. It is available in SuSE 7.1 as package mirror. Documentation is good and it is very easy to configure it. -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/ Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Hey all,
I deal with several suse boxes and regularly get updates for them. One day I realized that it was beneficial for both me and (and other suse users with less bandwidth then me) to set up a small local FTP mirror on our LAN. So I set up a little bash script to use wget in mirror mode. It runs at night, when fewer people are on the server (Please note that this is not an aggressive script, it hardly ever gets more then one or two RPMs a night).
Anyway, because I all my boxes are either 7.0 or 7.1, I don't mirrors the whole site, but only the 7.0 and 7.1 sub directories of the /pub/suse/i386/update and KDE2 directories. I have set up anonymous FTP on the computer that's hosting the "mirror" and SuSE-YOU can log in just fine, but it is obviously looking for something I don't have, because the following error happens:
The little console says:
Starting download of patch descriptions from 192.168.0.80. Connected failed : File not found on server Disconnected
Then a dialog box pops up that says Can't get patches from FTP server. Please try to get patches from another SuSE FTP server.
What is it that I'm missing?
TIA
At 10:05 AM 4/3/2001 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
Did you try using "mirror" perl script? It is much better than using wget to mirror ftp sites. It is available in SuSE 7.1 as package mirror. Documentation is good and it is very easy to configure it.
I think you are misunderstanding my question. I am not having trouble mirroring, nor with wget - it works great. My point is that I am purposely not mirroring the entire SuSE FTP structure, but I am obviously missing one or two files that SuSE-YOU is looking for. My question is, what files are those?
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Hey all,
I deal with several suse boxes and regularly get updates for them. One day I realized that it was beneficial for both me and (and other suse users with less bandwidth then me) to set up a small local FTP mirror on our LAN. So I set up a little bash script to use wget in mirror mode. It runs at night, when fewer people are on the server (Please note that this is not an aggressive script, it hardly ever gets more then one or two RPMs a night).
Anyway, because I all my boxes are either 7.0 or 7.1, I don't mirrors the whole site, but only the 7.0 and 7.1 sub directories of the /pub/suse/i386/update and KDE2 directories. I have set up anonymous FTP on the computer that's hosting the "mirror" and SuSE-YOU can log in just fine, but it is obviously looking for something I don't have, because the following error happens:
The little console says:
Starting download of patch descriptions from 192.168.0.80. Connected failed : File not found on server Disconnected
Then a dialog box pops up that says Can't get patches from FTP server. Please try to get patches from another SuSE FTP server.
What is it that I'm missing?
TIA
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---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
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