From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 6 18:43:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA06661 for current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from fw.ast.com (fw.ast.com [165.164.6.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA06646 Tue, 6 Feb 1996 18:43:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from nemesis by fw.ast.com with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0tjzJs-00087BC; Tue, 6 Feb 96 20:09 CST Received: by nemesis.lonestar.org (Smail3.1.27.1 #20) id m0tjzAx-000CCzC; Tue, 6 Feb 96 20:00 WET Message-Id: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 96 20:00 WET To: hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Sent: Tue Feb 6 1996, 20:00:03 CST Subject: Re: sup%d is broken - I agree Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [11]"Justin T. Gibbs" [11]I think that a method of reliably replicating the collections between [11]servers is in order. I'm not positive that all our servers are using the [11]same lists and even if they are, there's no guarantee that a change to the [11]collections on Freefall will propogate. I'll set something up later this [11]week that will make the whole process automatic for the "child" sup sites. [11]The supserver kit will become four files: supfile, supfile.conf, [11]customize.sh, README. As I understand sup, it doesn't look for changes the instant you pull stuff down, but does a scan at regular intervals. If that is true, read on. I remember a tool that would cut a snapshot of a directory structure and a file of checksums that could be used to make sure the tree is intact. (It may have been an alias for a "find | sum" combination, I don't recall.) Why not have some other app generate a sanity file just prior to sup synchronizing itself? The file would contain the "correct" tree structure, along with checksums of the files. Then the file would be available to both the mirrors (and mortals), would get sup'ed down as any other file, and could be used for detecting incomplete, corrupted, absent and extra files in their local trees by running a similar scan locally. Frank Durda IV |"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ^------(this is the fastest route)|"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983