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- From: sridhar@enuxhb.eas.asu.edu (Sridhar Venkataraman)
- Subject: Re: anon. FTP w/ Mirroring
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.191206.10466@ennews.eas.asu.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:12:06 GMT
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- woodstock!chris@mcnc.org
- writes on comp.unix.admin:
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- )On a few of the famous FTP sites, I've seen notices to the effect of
- )"Files in this directory are automatically mirrored from XXX.XXX.XXX".
- )
- )Can somebody clue me in as to how this is done? I suspect that it's
- )a cron job, and not done as part of FTP.
-
- Most of the sites do it by using the mirror package (in perl) by
- Lee McLoughlin (lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk). Try searching for mirror as a
- substring using Archie.
-
- Sridhar.
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