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From: Michael Renner <robe@××××××.at>
To: gentoo-mirrors@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:45:22
Message-Id: 43F25D6E.9060404@amd.co.at
In Reply to: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC by Jeffrey Forman
1 Jeffrey Forman wrote:
2 > Hello once again Gentoo mirror admins,
3 >
4 > Your friendly gentoo infrastructure monkey. I have finally finished a
5 > work I started many weeks ago and wanted to gague your interest in it.
6 > It is related to the automated rsync mirror checker running at
7 > http://mirrorstats.gentoo.org/rsync/
8
9 Looks a bit like mirmon ;) *scnr*.
10
11 > The script can now send out alerts as forwarded below.
12
13 [..]
14
15 > I'd like to get your opinions on how often you would like this sent out
16 > to the list, or if you would rather it sent out to individual admins?
17
18 Send it to the mirror contact. The mailing list should be kept
19 "noise-free". I (and most likely other mirror-admins too) don't care
20 when mirror $foo is broken.
21
22 > Every few hours, once a day, once a week,
23 > etc? Because it is an rsync mirror check, a longer time frame, in my
24 > opinion, becomes less timely, as opposed to sending it out once a day.
25
26 Send it when the mirror goes "bad" and from that one once per day. As
27 soon as the server gets "ok" again, reset the one-day-delay, so that
28 "flapping" problems can get spotted.
29
30 best regards,
31 Michael Renner
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC Jeffrey Forman <jforman@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-mirrors] Gentoo rsync mirror alert RFC Veiko Kukk <veiko@×××××.ee>