[as-devel] Re: mirrors.redhat.com & ftp.afterstep.org
David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:10:51 -0500 (CDT)
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 bandregg@redhat.com wrote:
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>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.
This might be the problem. The ftp.afterstep.org site hosted is
_not_ a mirror, it is the _main_ ftp site. As too why it is on the
mirrors.redhat.com server I do not know. This is the site people rely on
to upload patches, and updated programs.
>> 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.
Thanks for the quick response.
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