<span class="postbody">I'm trying to get the http replicator working.
I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Below are the steps I did to prep
the machine. I know that the user portage has write/read access as
specified in /etc/conf.d/http-replicator. I also went over step by step
with a user that has been using this before this package was put into
portage. ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY Appreciated.
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echo &quot;net-proxy/http-replicator&quot; &gt;&gt; /etc/portage/packcage.keywords 
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emerge http-replicator 
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Below is what my make.conf looks like on the server 
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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage 
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# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example 
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CFLAGS=&quot;-O2 -march=pentium4&quot; 
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CHOST=&quot;i686-pc-linux-gnu&quot; 
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CXXFLAGS=&quot;${CFLAGS}&quot; 
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SYNC=&quot;rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage&quot; 
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GENTOO_MIRRORS=&quot;<a href="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/">http://gentoo.osuosl.org/</a>&quot; 
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http_proxy=&quot;<a href="http://10.1.10.37.com:8080">http://10.1.10.37.com:8080</a>&quot; 
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RESUMECOMMAND=&quot; /usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}&quot; 
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Below is what my client make.conf 
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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage 
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# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example 
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CFLAGS=&quot;-O2 -march=pentium3&quot; 
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CHOST=&quot;i686-pc-linux-gnu&quot; 
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CXXFLAGS=&quot;${CFLAGS}&quot; 
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USE=&quot;mdadm&quot; 
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SYNC=&quot;rsync://10.1.10.37/gentoo-portage&quot; 
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http_proxy=&quot;<a href="http://10.1.10.37.com:8080">http://10.1.10.37.com:8080</a>&quot; 
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RESUMECOMMAND=&quot; /usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp \${URI} -O \${DISTDIR}/\${FILE}&quot; 
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Here is the proof that the rights are correct
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localhost ~ # ls -ld /var/cache/http-replicator/
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drwxrwxrwx  2 portage portage 8192 Jan 25 21:53 /var/cache/http-replicator/
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localhost ~ #
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I run the command repcacheman and it works fine with the below output 
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Found 22746 ebuilds. 
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Extracting the checksums.... 
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Done! 
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SUMMARY: 
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Found 0 duplicate file(s). 
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Deleted 0 dupe(s). 
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Found 19 new file(s). 
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Added 0 of those file(s) to the cache. 
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Rejected 0 corrupt or incomplete file(s). 
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19 Unknown file(s) that are not listed in portage 
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You may want to delete them yourself.... 
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Done! 
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When I go to start the server it says. And this is where I believe it fails. 
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I have also tried repcacheman --user portage --dir /var/cache/http-replicator 
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localhost / # /etc/init.d/http-replicator restart 
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* Stopping Http-Replicator ... 
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No http-replicator found running; none killed. [ ok ] 
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* Starting Http-Replicator ... 
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usage: http-replicator [options] 
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http-replicator: error: invalid directory '/var/cache/http-replicator' [ ok ]
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Below is my /etc/conf.d/http-replicator
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## Config file for http-replicator
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## sourced by init scripts automatically
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## GENERAL_OPTS used by repcacheman
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## DAEMON_OPTS used by http-replicator
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## Set the cache dir
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GENERAL_OPTS=&quot;--dir /var/cache/http-replicator&quot;
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## Change UID/GID to user after opening the log and pid file.
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## 'user' must have read/write access to cache dir:
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GENERAL_OPTS=&quot;$GENERAL_OPTS --user portage&quot;
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## Don't change or comment this out:
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$GENERAL_OPTS&quot;
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## Do you need a proxy to reach the internet?
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## This will forward requests to an external proxy server:
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## Use one of the following, not both:
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#DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --external somehost:1234&quot;
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#DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --external username:password@host:port&quot;
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## Local dir to serve clients.  Great for serving binary packages
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## See PKDIR and PORTAGE_BINHOST settings in 'man make.conf'
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## --alias /path/to/serve:location will make /path/to/serve
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## browsable at <a href="http://http-replicator.com/location" target="_blank">http://http-replicator.com:port/location</a>
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --alias /usr/portage/packages/All:All&quot;
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## Dir to hold the log file:
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --log /var/log/http-replicator.log&quot;
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## Make the log messages less and less verbose.
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## Up to four times to make it extremely quiet.
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#DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --quiet&quot;
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#DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --quiet&quot;
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## Make the log messages extra verbose for debugging.
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#DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --debug&quot;
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## The ip addresses from which access is allowed. Can be used as many times
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## as necessary. Access from localhost is allowed by default.
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --ip 192.168.*.*&quot;
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --ip 10.*.*.*&quot;
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## The proxy port on which the server listens for http requests:
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DAEMON_OPTS=&quot;$DAEMON_OPTS --port 8080&quot;</span>