[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 5.1 Released!

[Jesper Skriver]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:20:02PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:

> jason andrade wrote:
>
>  > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  >
>  > > That won't be possible, at least for me.  I am FTP admin at
>  > > ftp7.de, but I am not root on that machine, so I cannot create
>  > > ssh accounts.  Even if I was root there, I wouldn't be allowed to
>  > > create ssh accounts for "strangers", because it is a university
>  > > machine.  (It doesn't matter whether the account is restricted to
>  > > one command via an ssh key.)
>  >
>  > that's a bummer. but perhaps we can come up with two sets of
>  > triggers. one is via ssh, the other is the more normal 'polling'
>  > system. the master updates a file.. which is periodically checked
>  > on some clients, and if the date in it is later than they
>  > previously had, it causes an update ?
>
> Yes, that would work, I guess.
>
> However, what's wrong with the e-mail idea?

Neither of the 2 mirrors I maintain run a MTA, or has means of receiving
mail - nor would I like to install/start a MTA on them, as it increase
maintenance.

But as mileage clearly wary, I would be nice to provide multiple methods,
so each admin can choose the one they prefer.

/Jesper