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

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Fri, 10 May 2013 14:57:27 -0500
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.

Hope so. ;) 

> 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)?

Perhaps stick a rsync banner up now about the change and then shut it
down before the machine goes away?

kevin
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