Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, houghi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:39:13PM +0200, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:

> > I am not kidding. The synchronizing effort at http://ftp.gwdg.de for
>
> Nice website. Very up to date with the OS and all. Oh well, if it ain't
> broke, don't fix it.
>
> Just to be sure. is it http://ftp you want or ftp://ftp you want us to
> use?

http://ftp4...
ftp://ftp4...
rsync://ftp4...

starting around minute 0 of an hour.

> > the i386 ISOs (implemented by Christoph Thiel at download.opensuse.org)
> > is a great push. OK, all non-SUSE-using customers of ftp.gwdg.de are
> > paying tax for this, but SUSE had all the last (10? 9? Maybe only 8)
> > years more then 2/3 of the ftp.gwdg.de output, and now for a hopefully
> > limited time it is more then 9/10. I consider this a service effort.
> >
> > If we would achieve this synchronous action (remember: "SUSE-10.0 YOU
> > time at ftp4 is minute 0 of every hour"), I see a good chance for a major
> > improvement in service without more stress to the server.
>
> OK, so I do put the following in my crontab:
> 0 * * * * /usr/bin/online_update -u http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/suse
>
> or am I misreading things?

No no, please not at EVERY hour...

The thought was: if you do, do it at minute 0.
Once a day should be enough.

Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@xxxxxxx, em@xxxxxxx)