Re: New ftpsync version 20170920

On 22/09/2017 19:08, Bastian Blank wrote:
> Hello mirror operators
> 
> We recently release ftpsync 20170920. You can find it on a Debian mirror
> near you.
> 
> It includes a lot of changes since the last release.  Notable ones are:
> 
> * Add ftpsync-cron script.
>    This script can be used on mirrors running via cron.  It uses http to
>    check the archive state before running a complete sync.  This means it
>    can be run every 30 minutes without doing much load on the upstream
>    system.
> 
> * Add several mirror information to trace file.
>    We added some new config options with mirror information like
>    maintainer addresses.  See ftpsync.conf.sample for a full set.  We may
>    use them in the future to update our mirror list automatically.
> 
> * Set default MAILTO to the current user.
>    In the past the default user to get error mails was root.  As we found
>    out a lot of admins never got such mails because of that.  If you
>    relied on the old default of "root", you must change your config.
> 
> Regards,
> Bastian
> 

Please note that if you need ftpsync to work as stated in the README 
file under

   ## Usage
   For impatient people, short usage instruction:


you need to modify the search_config() function line

    for i in ~/.config/ftpsync /etc/ftpsync; do
to
    for i in ~/.config/ftpsync /etc/ftpsync ~/etc/ ~/; do