> Yeah, that doesn't work quite right. Without parameter fiddling, I get > non-repository files (.html, etc) as well as it may go UP the url and > continue to suck down. I didn't realize this until I pulled down 3+ gig > from Duke... had stuff like 7.x updates to (useless to me, as we have no > <8 machines)... luckily we get like a megabyte a second from you guys. hehe. > I've never used rsync, but I don't think I can use it here. Our heavily > DMZ'ed public http server can really only do HTTP requests, and even > those I back tunnel over ssh to a proxy. I think I'm restricted to > HTTP-pure mirroring techniques. easy way to test. login to your server and run: rsync mirror.dulug.duke.edu::archive/pub/yum-repository/redhat/ if you see a list that looks like: Modules: archive Everything redhat-ftp Red Hat FTP Site redhat-base Red Hat FTP Site redhat-beta Red Hat Linux beta releases redhat-rawhide Rawhide FTP Site redhat-updates Updates FTP Site redhat-contrib Red Hat, Inc. -- Contrib FTP Site drwxrwxr-x 4096 2003/07/21 10:37:53 . drwxrwxr-x 4096 2003/02/15 16:39:17 7.1 drwxrwxr-x 4096 2003/02/15 16:07:01 7.2 drwxrwxr-x 4096 2003/02/15 16:10:25 7.3 drwxr-xr-x 4096 2003/02/15 16:14:37 8.0 drwxr-xr-x 4096 2003/04/04 00:46:13 9 drwxr-xr-x 4096 2003/02/19 12:44:32 phoebe drwxr-xr-x 4096 2003/07/21 10:38:07 severn drwxrwxr-x 4096 2003/04/03 13:29:24 updates then it should work. -sv
