[Hosting] bandwidth slammed

[Chris Hedemark]

Jeremy,

Good idea.  If it is okay, I'd like to continue running it out of my own
user context to avoid the kinds of accidents that can happen when you
have a script running as root with commands that begin with "rm -rf".

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 14:48, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2002, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> > Gee it runs a lot faster on dargo than it does on my little duron box. 
> > Wonder why. :)
> > 
> > In any case, I'm putting the finishing touches on it.  It's a pretty
> > primitive script, but it will make a ports.tar.gz for FreeBSD and
> > OpenBSD, as well as md5 files, under /mirrors/pub/ports.
> > 
> > I'll set it up to run nightly.
> 
> Doesn't apply to you necessarily, since you have sudo access, but I've
> made /etc/cron.daily/mirrors writeable by the "mirrors" group so that all
> mirror maintainers can update things that need to be run nightly.  This
> would be preferable to individual crontab files, so that everyone can see
> what's being run.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
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