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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'?
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On 14-Sep-2005 Peter Pentchev wrote:
> In an out-of-band discussion related to ftp/www/cvsup.bg.FreeBSD.org,
> George Danchev mentioned 'mirmon', a utility for monitoring the
> 'up-to-dateness' of project mirror sites based on the timestamp of
> a file touched hourly on the master site:
> 
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/
> 
> Would it be a good idea to run something like that for the FreeBSD
> mirrors?  I think a file with a timestamp updated hourly would not
> put too much stress on the mirrors.

Sorry to weigh in so late on this.  I just got home from vacation.
It sounds like a good idea to me.  The extra load on the mirrors
would be negligible.

John