PHP Mirrors - 2nd Official ZA PHP mirror

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2nd Official ZA PHP mirror

Patrick Holahan

2007-11-29, 4:05 am

Hi,=20

We, TENET, run the php.mirror.ac.za mirror in South Africa and would
like to get it added to the official list of php mirror sites.=20
There is currently only one ZA mirror listed on your
http://www.php.net/mirrors.php page, http://za.php.net, which appears to
point to php.mirrors.powertrip.co.za.

Mirror.ac.za serves content to all the universities in South Africa and
therefore has a very large customer base. I believe we previously had
za2.php.net, however I am unsure as to why that was removed. The site
hasn't been removed from our side, however while we are synching it from
rsync.php.net::phpweb, visiting the page php.mirror.ac.za shows outdated
content. Is there an ACL from your side preventing updates from
non-official mirrors?

Due to us serving live content at present, I haven't setup the
ServerName or ServerAlias as per your documentation, but I can as soon
as I get feedback from you regarding the above.

Please contact me if you have any queries regarding my requests.=20

Thanks & Regards,
Patrick Holahan
TENET - Technical Officer

Phone: +27 (0) 21 763 7140
Fax: +27 (0) 21 763 7117
GSM: +27 (0) 79 523 5555
E-mail: patrickh@tenet.ac.za
url: http://www.tenet.ac.za

Hannes Magnusson

2007-11-29, 8:01 am

On Nov 29, 2007 9:05 AM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
> Mirror.ac.za serves content to all the universities in South Africa and
> therefore has a very large customer base. I believe we previously had
> za2.php.net, however I am unsure as to why that was removed. The site
> hasn't been removed from our side, however while we are synching it from
> rsync.php.net::phpweb, visiting the page php.mirror.ac.za shows outdated
> content. Is there an ACL from your side preventing updates from
> non-official mirrors?

I removed the mirror April 29th after it had been disabled for months.
I did try to contact you, several times, via the maintainers mail we
had on record but never got any reply.

How exactly are you rsyncing from us?
If you can get the mirror into shape, rsyncing once an hour, I'll
gladly re-add it to our mirror list as za2.php.net.

-Hannes

Patrick Holahan

2007-11-29, 8:01 am

> On Nov 29, 2007 9:05 AM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
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> I removed the mirror April 29th after it had been disabled for months.
> I did try to contact you, several times, via the maintainers mail we
had on record but never got any reply.
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> How exactly are you rsyncing from us?
> If you can get the mirror into shape, rsyncing once an hour, I'll
gladly re-add it to our mirror list as za2.php.net.
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> -Hannes

Hi Hannes,=20

Generally we don't rsync as often as that due to inbound international
constraints, in fact we normally only sync once a day during our quiet
period.=20
Currently the php sync happens at 23:00 SAST. I can up that to 4 times a
day, every 6 hours, would that be acceptable?

The sync script that is run uses the following:=20
rsync -avz --progress --delete --delete-after
--include=3D'distributions/*.exe' rsync.php.net::phpweb
/mirror/internal/www/php.net/

However, if you visit php.mirror.ac.za you can clearly see it's still
showing PHP 5.2.2 when the main site is showing PHP 5.2.5

Thanks in advance
-ph

Patrick Holahan
TENET - Technical Officer

Phone: +27 (0) 21 763 7140
Fax: +27 (0) 21 763 7117
GSM: +27 (0) 79 523 5555
E-mail: patrickh@tenet.ac.za
url: http://www.tenet.ac.za

Hannes Magnusson

2007-11-29, 8:01 am

On Nov 29, 2007 12:58 PM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
>
>
> previously
>
> synching
> had on record but never got any reply.
> gladly re-add it to our mirror list as za2.php.net.
>
> Hi Hannes,
>
> Generally we don't rsync as often as that due to inbound international
> constraints, in fact we normally only sync once a day during our quiet
> period.
> Currently the php sync happens at 23:00 SAST. I can up that to 4 times a
> day, every 6 hours, would that be acceptable?

An out of date mirror is of no use to us.
That being said, 4times a day... OK. I'll by that.

> The sync script that is run uses the following:
> rsync -avz --progress --delete --delete-after
> --include='distributions/*.exe' rsync.php.net::phpweb
> /mirror/internal/www/php.net/

And how sure are you that is actually being executed?
Run it by hand and send me the output.
Checking your logs is also a good idea.

-Hannes

Patrick Holahan

2007-11-29, 7:04 pm

> On Nov 29, 2007 12:58 PM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za>
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>
> An out of date mirror is of no use to us.
> That being said, 4times a day... OK. I'll by that.
>
>
>
> And how sure are you that is actually being executed?
> Run it by hand and send me the output.
> Checking your logs is also a good idea.
>
> -Hannes

It's definitely being executed by the cron script and I've also
previously
run in manually to confirm that there weren't any obvious problems from
our
side.

I've attached a log from earlier today, from running the entire script
manually - php.xfer.log - As you can see it appears to be working.
Here's a log from just running the rsync command manually now -
php.sync.log - no updates, but all appears to be working.

Patrick Holahan
TENET - Technical Officer

Phone: +27 (0) 21 763 7140
Fax: +27 (0) 21 763 7117
GSM: +27 (0) 79 523 5555
E-mail: patrickh@tenet.ac.za
url: http://www.tenet.ac.za

Hannes Magnusson

2007-11-29, 7:04 pm

On Nov 29, 2007 1:51 PM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
> It's definitely being executed by the cron script and I've also
> previously
> run in manually to confirm that there weren't any obvious problems from
> our
> side.

I have no idea whats up with your box.
The only thing I can think of is you are rsyncing onto a wrong box :)

-Hannes

Jacques Marneweck

2007-11-29, 7:04 pm

Patrick,

I take it you guys got the email I sent to dgb at tenet on the 11th
of November regarding your incorrectly configured PHP and FreeBSD
mirrors. I'll pop round to your wynberg offices if you guys can
confirm a time that I can meetup with Andrew and yourself and we can
sit down and sort the apache configuration issues out and sort rsync
out before going forward with making the tenet PHP mirror a official
mirror.

Regards
--jm

On 29 Nov 2007, at 5:11 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2007 1:51 PM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
>
> I have no idea whats up with your box.
> The only thing I can think of is you are rsyncing onto a wrong box :)
>
> -Hannes

Patrick Holahan

2007-11-30, 8:03 am

Hi Jacques,=20

Actually I'm following up on this due to an e-mail thread from Charl van
Niekierk.=20
I'll speak to DBG when I next see him about your mail. Andrew should be
in the=20
office next w

, but I'll confirm a time with you as soon as I
see/speak to him again.

Thanks=20
-ph=20

Patrick Holahan
TENET - Technical Officer

Phone: +27 (0) 21 763 7140
Fax: +27 (0) 21 763 7117
GSM: +27 (0) 79 523 5555
E-mail: patrickh@tenet.ac.za
url: http://www.tenet.ac.za

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacques Marneweck [mailto:jacques@powertrip.co.za]=20
Sent: 29 November 2007 09:07 PM
To: "Hannes Magnusson"
Cc: Patrick Holahan; mirrors@php.net; Andrew Alston
Subject: Re: 2nd Official ZA PHP mirror

Patrick,

I take it you guys got the email I sent to dgb at tenet on the 11th of
November regarding your incorrectly configured PHP and FreeBSD mirrors.
I'll pop round to your wynberg offices if you guys can confirm a time
that I can meetup with Andrew and yourself and we can sit down and sort
the apache configuration issues out and sort rsync out before going
forward with making the tenet PHP mirror a official mirror.

Regards
--jm

On 29 Nov 2007, at 5:11 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> On Nov 29, 2007 1:51 PM, Patrick Holahan <patrickh@tenet.ac.za> wrote:
>
> I have no idea whats up with your box.
> The only thing I can think of is you are rsyncing onto a wrong box :)
>
> -Hannes

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