Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
> 
>> I'm running a cluster of machines and would like to set up a local  
>> mirror site of the SL 4x packages.  In the abstract, I assume this 
>> is  as straight-forward as writing a bash script which wgets all of 
>> the  rpms in a given "official" directory.  The script then would 
>> need to  be run at regular intervals to keep the directory current - 
>> I assume  crontab is the usual choice for this scheduling?  I feel 
>> like there  are a bunch of details to mirroring that I don't have a 
>> handle on -  could anyone suggest something more detailed than the 
>> wiki pages?
>>
>> Is the comand for updating my local mirror as simple as,
>>
>> rsync -r rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/4x/i386/* / 
>> data-1/scientific-linux/scientific/4x/i386/
>>
>> this command assuming that I've got a local directory, "/data-1/ 
>> scientific-linux/scientific/4x/i386/"
> 
> Checkout Yam/mrepo (it's currently going through a name change):
> 
> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/
> 
> Simplifies this for you ten fold.
> 
> Michael.

Also, we have a mirroring web page

https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/mirroring/

Just one thing, don't put the * in your rsync command, it should be

rsync -r rsync://rsync.scientificlinux.org/scientific/4x/i386/ 
/data-1/scientific-linux/scientific/4x/i386/

I'm not positive what the * will do, but I bet it wouldn't be what you 
really want.

Troy
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