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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:59:14
Message-Id: 1126133819.15757.1.camel@rattus.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates by Matthias Bethke
1 rattus src # grep -n compress `which emerge`
2 2425: "--compress", # Compress the data
3 transmitted
4 rattus src #
5
6 Its in the arguments passed to rsync in the emerge script which is where
7 I got it from. If emerge uses it ...
8
9 BillK
10
11
12 On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 17:28 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote:
13 > Hi W.Kenworthy,
14 > on Wednesday, 2005-09-07 at 14:48:08, you wrote:
15 > > or to reduce bandwidth try this as the crontab command:
16 > >
17 > > rsync --recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
18 > ^^^^^^^^^^
19 > IIRC you're not supposed to do this as it generates too much load on the
20 > gentoo mirrors. Might depend on the individual server's policy but I
21 > think that's the general rule.
22 >
23 > regards
24 > Matthias
25 --
26 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
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Re: [gentoo-server] prioritising security updates Matthias Bethke <Matthias.Bethke@×××.net>