The TriLUG Mail Server / Member Services FAQ: TriLUG Mirror Server

4. TriLUG Mirror Server

Information about TriLUG's mirror server, which provides Linux distributions and other free software.

4.1 What is the TriLUG mirror server?

The TriLUG Mirror Server is a dual Pentium III 600Mhz machine donated by the Center for Public Domain. Special thanks go to Inflow, our co-location provider (see Sponsors: http://www.trilug.org/sponsors.php). Several members and companies donated drives, SCSI cards, and other components... thanks! The main disk array is about 101 GB.

4.2 What is available on the mirror server?

We have mirrors of several popular Linux distributions, and some other Linux or open-source related items. Here are the primary directories as of this FAQ's writing:


Immunix_6.2
linux-kernel
mandrake
mandrake-updates
mozilla
redhat
security
updates
VA_Linux_6.2.4

4.3 How do I access mirrors via HTTP ?

Currently, HTTP access is available to members only. Connect to http://mirrors.trilug.org. Use your registered email address as your username, and your member number as your password.

4.4 How do I access mirrors via FTP ?

Anonymous: FTP to mirrors.trilug.org and log in as anonymous . Anonymous access is bandwidth limited and limited to a small number of users at a time.
Authenticated: FTP to mirrors.trilug.org and log in with your registered email address as your username, and your member number as password. There are no restrictions when you are authenticated; however we do have a limited amount of bandwidth from Inflow.

4.5 How do I use the TriLUG mirror server for up2date (current server)? (Red Hat Linux and Aurora Sparclinux only)

You will need to set up your computer to use TriLUG's server instead of the default Red Hat Network. Here's how: (note: these instructions might be broken for rhl 7.x/up2date 2.8. We're working on it.)

Determine your version of up2date by running rpm -q up2date at a shell prompt.
Make a backup of your up2date configuration file, /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
Download TRILUG-CA-CERT and one of the up2date configuration files (depending on your version):
- Public key for dargo's current server: http://www.trilug.org/~elliot/current/TRILUG-CA-CERT : install this file as /usr/share/rhn/TRILUG-CA-CERT
- up2date 2.8 configuration file, installed as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date : http://www.trilug.org/~elliot/current/up2date-2.8
- up2date 3.0 configuration file, installed as /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date : http://www.trilug.org/~elliot/current/up2date-3.0
Run up2date to "register" yourself with the new server/setup. You should see a trilug-specifc privacy policy, instead of the one from Red Hat Network.
Enter your registered email address as username, and your membership number as password (you'll have to enter the member number/password twice). The field marked email address is required by the client, but not used by TriLUG's server.
Note: the only required fields are username, password, and email address. The other information is not kept by the current server backend, so there's no point in filling it in.
Complete your registration! You should be able to use up2date as normal, but now it downloads from dargo.trilug.org instead of Red Hat's servers.
If you wish to restore the default configuration, simply restore your backed up /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date configuration file.