[as-devel] Re: mirrors.redhat.com & ftp.afterstep.org

bandregg@redhat.com
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:49:50 -0400


[ djb added to cc-list. ]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:36:54 -0500 (CDT), David Mihm wrote: 
>[davemann@mirrors ftp.afterstep.org]$ df
>Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
>/dev/md0             10259027 10259027        0    100%   /raid
>
>	Going on 45+ days, the drive in which ftp.afterstep.org resides
>has been at 100% capacity.  This is rendering the hosting of this ftp
>useless.
>

	I will correct this before I leave tonight. I am running a du on it
	right now. By the end of the week I will have disk usage reporting
	setup. Many apologies for the delays in all of this; we are under-
	staffed right now and are working through it.

>[davemann@mirrors ftp.afterstep.org]$ ls -l incoming/
>drwxr-xr-x   2 ftp      ftp          1024 Apr 16 20:42 test
>[davemann@mirrors ftp.afterstep.org]$ ls -l incoming/test/
>total 2
>-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp           967 Apr 16 20:38 MS-DOS ????.pif
>-rw-r--r--   1 ftp      ftp           285 Apr 16 20:42 proxyht.lnk
>
>	I have asked several times for the permission to be corrected on
>this dir and/or for it to be removed by an admin since it was created in
>April.  While this in itself is not an important issue, it is indicitive
>of how the ftp.afterstep.org site is treated.
>

	This will also be corrected before I leave tonight. We are in the
	process of creating a Community Advocacy group to treat how Red
	Hat works with mirrors like you. The treatment will get better.

>
>	I am deeply indebted to Red Hat, Inc. for hosting the AfterStep
>ftp site, but it needs to remain operational to be truely useful.  I
>simply ask that I could be told if this problem will be solved or I should
>be looking elsewhere for a new host.

	I will be requesting new hardware for your and other sites today. We
	hope to have something in place by Friday.
-- 
                 Bryan C. Andregg * <bandregg@redhat.com> * Red Hat, Inc.

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