CTM disruption

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi ctm-users at freebsd.org
cc freebsd-ops-announce at freebsd.org, np at bsn.com, clusteradm at freebsd.org

There was a clumsy** silent demolition of FTP CTM repositories.  I looked for
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/FreeBSD-SVN/svn-cur.03995.xz
Found
 ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/README-CTM.txt
 -rw-r--r--  1 1006  1006  217 Oct  5 23:01 README-CTM.txt
Containing:
  CTM has not been supported by the FreeBSD project for a number of years.
  Deltas are no longer being distributed here.
  However, the same deltas are still available:
  ftp://ctm.berklix.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/

(False. CTM was supported & worked fine till yesterday.)

These still exist:
 ftp://ctm.berklix.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/svn-cur
 & ../ ports-cur scripts src-10 src-4 src-5 src-6 src-7 src-8 src-9 src-cur 

BUT **
  No warning was given to ctm-users at freebsd.org or ctm-announce at freebsd.org
  or freebsd-ops-announce at freebsd.org or me as owner of ctm.berklix.org
  that freebsd.org was about to demolish their ftp ctm repository,
  globaly mirrored by such as ftp://ftp2.de.freebsd.org , leaving
  ctm.berklix.org as sole server of large base files ( incremental
  deltas still also at http://web.missouri.edu/~stephen/CTM/svn-cur/   )

  http://ctm.berklix.org has long had:
  	"Please do Not overload ftp:// ctm. berklix. org.
   	It is Not a powerful main mirror."

Today ssh access to server ctm.berklix.org died, I'm wondering if
sshd just died at random, if there were extra heavy sftp or rsync
updates or whatever else.  I was given No warning by clusteradm at freebsd.org
so I took no particular monitoring precautions against load change.

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey,  BSD Linux Unix Sys. Eng. Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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