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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:15:07 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
Cc:        nicole@mediacity.com, The experts <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, sharding@ophelia.uoregon.edu, Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Subject:   Re: Mirror Mirror crashing down MORE INFO 
Message-ID:  <199803271015.CAA02751@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 01:24:46 PST." <199803270924.BAA11719@foo.primenet.com> 

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>In localhost.freebsd.questions you write:
>
>[...]
>
>># Mirror.default
>
>>verbose = true
>>make_bad_symlinks = true
>>package = FreeBSD
>>site = ftp.freebsd.org
>
>>local_dir = /usr/local/etc/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/
>>remote_dir = pub/FreeBSD
>
>Hm.  /pub/FreeBSD on wcarchive is a symlink.  I don't know much about
>mirror -- does it do OK with symlinks as initial targets?
>
>If not, then one of these may work.
>
>remote_dir = /.25/FreeBSD
>or
>remote_dir = .25/FreeBSD
>
>>do_deletes = true
>>store_remote_listing = /usr/local/etc/ftp/pub/nicole
>>get_newer = true

   You definately want to use the /pub/FreeBSD symlink and not the absolute
path - we move things around regularly and the mirror would break if we did.
I think the problem is that the local directory doesn't exist on their
machine; make sure it exists before running the mirror.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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