discuss: mirror checkup
Subject:
Re: [discuss] mirror checkup
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
12 Oct 2005 09:08:23 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0510120909550.19924-100000@cobra.xalasys.com>
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On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, David Lawyer wrote:
> I might be interested in trying to write a script to do this. I would
> use wget to get the contents of timestamp.txt from all the sites.
> Then a list of sites that couldn't be reached would need to be retried
> periodically. Then one could use grep to find out-of-date timestamps by
> finding all dates for the wrong month/year. This means that the check
> would be made in about the middle of the month so as to pick up sites
> over 10-20 days out-of-date. After generating a list of out-of-date
> mirrors use a "for" loop to email them form letters. I guess it
> should require a final OK from the user before the script broadcasts
> form letters to the mirror maintainers (just in case the script is
> broken and is about to send out "spam" by mistake).
I already have a bit of a script for doing it, but imho there should be
some perl in it, but I only know Bash. So don't make fun of me :P
I have it on my laptop at home, I'll try to put it online tonight and then
people who are interested can work together to make it better.
Tille.
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