[mirror-admin] Mirror Manager

[Stephan Wonczak]

   Hi Matt!

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Matt_Domsch at Dell.com wrote:

> Patches welcome. :-)  I knew I hadn't put any protection around the
> deletion commands.

   Weeellll... I would, but my web programming skills are even less than 
nonexistent :-) I'll try to interest one of my colleagues, though.

   Cheers from Cologne,

 		C U, Stephan

    "I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where I left it."
    "The meaning of my life is to make me crazy"

>
> --
> Matt Domsch
> Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
> linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mirror-list-d-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:mirror-list-d-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephan Wonczak
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:56 AM
> To: RedHat Mirror List
> Subject: Mirror Manager
>
>   Hi!
>   I was just checking our mirror, when I found out that a colleague
> broke
> my rsync-scripts a while ago without me noticing :-(  Repair was easy,
> but
> now I have to pull a lot of updates all at once, including FC9. Oh well.
>   Anyway, this is not the reason for this mail. I was checking which
> mirror manager which parts of our mirror had remained up to date, when I
>
> clicked on the 'delete' link of one of the categories by mistake. I was
> rather surprised that there was *no* safety check at all for this
> operation. Ok, it is easy to recreate the category, but it is still a
> nuisance. Maybe a pop-up with something to the effect 'Are you sure
> really
> sure about this?' would be helpful, as would moving the 'delete' link a
> bit further away from the normal link. Any opinions?
>   As a further idea for enhancement, what about a (configurable)
> warning
> email, when the webcrawler notices something going stale/out of sync?
>
>   Cheers from a sunny Cologne,
>
> 	Dipl. Chem. Dr. Stephan Wonczak
>
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