[mirror-admin] Procedure to nicely shut down a mirror?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 10 May 2013 13:57, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> I'm going to be shutting down mirror.hiwaay.net over the next week or
> so; I'm leaving for a new company, and nobody else here is interested in
> maintaining it.  There's a good chance I'll be back with a mirror at the
> new place in a month or two.
>
> I'm not concerned about HTTP connections, since they should follow
> mirrormanager, but I do see a fair number of rsync connections.  Is
> there anything reasonable I should do to let people know it is going
> away, or should I just shut down rsync so they get "connection refused"
> (followed by timeouts and then "host not found" errors when the server
> goes away)?
>


put in a motd file that this mirror is going away in X days. I am trying to
remember if there is a way to send a motd and then refuse sending anything
else so that they get told you are gone.. etc.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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