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

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> said:
> 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.

Good idea, I didn't think about the motd file.  Also, I run rsync out of
xinetd, and it can put up a banner file when the service fails, which I
also have configured (it just has to start with "@RSYNCD: 26").  Before
I turn the server off, I'll set xinetd to max rsync instances of zero so
it'll always give the "fail" banner.  I think that should do it.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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