Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:26:29 -0400 From: Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, doc@FreeBSD.org, sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu Subject: Re: Thanks in advance for fixing this bug/oversight =) Message-ID: <20010507152629.B3805@guinness.osdn.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010507121021.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 07 May 2001 at 12:10:21 -0700, John Baldwin wrote: > On 06-May-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I think the best thing to do right now is take ftp.freebsd.org > > completely offline until we can make it a round-robin mirror list. > > I don't have the disk space to make ftp.freebsd.org a full and > > complete mirror of ftp-master.freebsd.org and what's even more > > embarassing is not having your perceived "official mirror site" > > being a full and complete mirror. > > > > I'll request that ftp.freebsd.org go offline for now. > > At least put a note up about that then. If people go to connect to > ftp.freebsd.org and get connection refused or a DNS lookup that will > scare them even more. Yeah, I agree this would be bad. People are complaining like crazy now, having the site completely vanish would only make it worse. > Why not just put the text of your mail to -announce up in the > newsflash section? Also, FWIW, Neil Blakely-Milner (sp?) had a > sample of a new frontpage that trimmed some of the text and had the > last 4 or 5 items from newsflash on the bottom. That would be a very > nice addition if we could find a nice way of doing that. I think this would be a good idea. A perl script to grab the last few entries and put them into a file which gets included onto the main page with SSI (yes, ick, but since we don't want PHP...) should do the trick. Actually, now that I think about it, we wouldn't even need to use SSI. The script could just output to /news/news.out or something and we can use the SGML hooks to include it. Something like this: In www/en/includes.sgml: <!ENTITY news SYSTEM "&base;/news/news.out"> In www/en/index.sgml (where the news would show): &news; The most involved part would be the perl script to split out the last few entries. - jim -- - jim mock <mij@osdn.com> - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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