Re: rsync.spamassassin.org respond slowly

"Benny Pedersen via users" <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:41:35 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general
Organization junc.eu
Message-ID <[email protected]>
A. Schulze via users skrev den 2026-04-13 12:39:
> Hello,
> 
> over the last months I regualry notice timeouts when running
> 
> `rsync -a --no-motd --exclude MIRRORED.BY  
> rsync.spamassassin.org::updates /sa-mirror`

xpoint@tux ~/sa $ rsync -a --no-motd --exclude MIRRORED.BY  
rsync.spamassassin.org::updates /sa-mirror
rsync: [Receiver] mkdir "/sa-mirror" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(791) [Receiver=3.4.1]
xpoint@tux ~/sa $ rsync -a --no-motd --exclude MIRRORED.BY  
rsync.spamassassin.org::updates .

all fetched in updates, select a smaller range of dates or get it all

why not just sa-update ?

> I do that to update a private mirror aswell as the public mirror  
> sa-update.dnswl.org

rsync is not imho used in apache, but it tested it worked as you do, its 
just not dokumented to work

for the dnswl it might be another problem

> Sometimes the rsync takes more then 5 Minutes.

it was faster here, i just did not test dnswl

i have 1000/1000 Mbit fiber here, my wifi is faster :=) (unifi express 
7)