[mirror-admin] MirrorManager doesn't realize a site is out of date?

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:13:41PM -0400, Columbia University Mirror Admins wrote:
> Quoting Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>:
> >On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 05:30:46PM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> >>On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:54:19PM -0400, Columbia University   
> >>Mirror Admins wrote:
> >>> Can anyone explain why MM would think this?
> >>
> >>If you run report_mirror, then MirrorManager always assumes it is up
> >>to date.
> 
> Is there something I should be running to make sure my mirror is up to  
> date before running report_mirror?  Besides of course the rsync I  
> thought was updating it.

Not really.  You can watch the exit codes of rsync to know if it
completed successfully or not.  Exit codes 0, 23, and 24 seem to be
the ones that indicate success.
 
> >And the crawler doesn't crawl private mirrors.
> 
> Should a private mirror be crawled if it is configured to serve Internet2?

maybe...  the crawler doesn't run from an I2-connected location
though.  It may well be that the crawler can't reach the private
mirror (hence I don't have it run against such).

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux

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