From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 09:13:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1284F37B401; Mon, 5 May 2003 09:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amun.isnic.is (amun.isnic.is [193.4.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B55F43F93; Mon, 5 May 2003 09:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oli@amun.isnic.is) Received: from amun.isnic.is (oli@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amun.isnic.is (8.12.9/8.12.9/isnic) with ESMTP id h45GDTMD065387; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:13:29 GMT (envelope-from oli@amun.isnic.is) Received: (from oli@localhost) by amun.isnic.is (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h45GDSDO065386; Mon, 5 May 2003 16:13:28 GMT (envelope-from oli) Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 16:13:28 +0000 From: Olafur Osvaldsson To: Kirk Strauser Message-ID: <20030505161328.GC64730@isnic.is> Mail-Followup-To: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org References: <20030504100447.GU12792@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <200305042336.h44NaoM7023683@gw.catspoiler.org> <20030504235059.GB42024@isnic.is> <20030505001955.GB92114@opiate.soulwax.net> <87r87d5vfg.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <87u1c94epk.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> <20030505153116.GC74924@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <87llxl4ce0.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87llxl4ce0.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=6.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43-isnic cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic email about security notifications X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:13:40 -0000 Kirk, On Mon, 05 May 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-05-05T15:31:16Z, Roman Neuhauser writes: > > > or something like this? > > > > security_advisory_mirror_list="ftp0 ftp1 ftp2 ftp3 ftp4 ftp5 ftp6 ftp7" > > > > getMirror () { > > set -- $security_advisory_mirror_list > > security_advisory_mirror=$(eval echo '$'`jot -r 1 1 $#`) > > } > > There's nothing at all wrong with that. My goal, though was to > automatically add that functionality to *every* program that would > ordinarily connect to ftp.freebsd.org. With the exception of changing some > default values, no programs would have to be modified to get the new > rotating-mirror capability. There is one big problem with that, the ftp[1-9]? servers are all in the US, there should be a way to impliment this with the int. mirrors to. Wich brings up one question, why isn't there a us.FreeBSD.org domain for the US mirrors. /Oli P.S. Copy sent to freebsd-hubs also. -- Olafur Osvaldsson Systems Administrator Internet a Islandi hf. Tel: +354 525-5291 Email: oli@isnic.is