Re: mirroring an swup server

* ["Nick Twaddell"]=20

> I have a bunch of servers that I would like to keep updated.  Is there
> anyway to mirror an existing swup server?  For example, take
> http://download.trustix.com/tsel/2/i586/trustix/rdfs/latest.rdf and mir=
ror
> all the contents and keep it updated?

That site doesn't support mirroring.

If you want to conserve bandwidth, you might want to use a caching web pr=
oxy
such as squid.  Squid is part of all current versions of Trustix OS.

When setting up squid you'd want to set maximum_object_size in
/etc/squid/squid.conf to something quite high.  I have it set to 32768 KB=
.
You'll also want to increase the store size of cache_dir to something hig=
her
than the default 100 MB.
Third, you'll need to set squid up to allow access from the machines in y=
our
local network.

To make swup use this http_proxy, it should be enough to set the http_pro=
xy
environment variable.  To get this set persistantly, you can edit
/etc/sysconfig/proxy.  Simply remove the # at the start of the http_proxy
line, and change the default (non-working) "proxy.trustix.org" for the IP
address or DNS name of your squid proxy server.  You'll need to log out a=
nd
log in again for this change to take effect.

=D8ystein
--=20
When in doubt: Recompile.