From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 21:36:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E4437B407 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 21:36:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 15l10f-0003o1-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:36:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:36:52 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup-mirror port Message-ID: <20010923003652.N24981@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from freebsd-lists@reiteration.net on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:10:16AM +0100 X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John probably said: > Connected to cvsup-master.freebsd.org > No record for server "freefall.freebsd.org" in > "/home/cvsupin/.cvsup/auth" > CVSup update ends at 2001-09-23 04:07:06 > > cvspasswd generates a password line comprising of my email address and a > md5 hash and instructs me to place the string > cvsup-master.freebsd.org:email@your.domain:xxxxxx: (where xxxx is your > plaintext password) into auth and to send the md5 hash string in a > secure email to the upstream mirror admin (in this case cvsup- > master.freebsd.org (aka freefall.freebsd.org) > > The question is, am I doing this correctly (I don't need write access to > the upstream repository, so why the personal login) who would I need to > contact, and what is their public key? I'd assume that it's so cvsup-master is only used by the mirrors and not j. random public. You don't have to cvsup your mirror from cvsup-master, of course. I run mirrors at the two sites where I have a lot of machines to save bandwidth and cpu time on the official mirrors, but I just cvsup from one of the public mirrors ... P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message