Something wrong here

[Alex Popa]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:01:19AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
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>   I'm trying to get my mirror updating through cvsup.  Something isn't
> right obviously and the cvsup is failing.  Here is the cvsup supfile:
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> ## FreeBSD archive supfile from master server
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> #*default host=ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You have no host from which to sync.  This is a comment.

You could run cvsup with a -h argument to try and fetch from a
particular host, or just add a *default host=CHANGE_THIS.freebsd.org
just to test.  Yes you have to change CHANGE_THIS :)

> *default base=/usr/local/ftp
> *default prefix=/usr/local/ftp/pub
> #*default release=all
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default umask=002
> 
> # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following
> # line.
> #*default compress
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> FreeBSD-archive release=all preserve
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> I'm trying to mirror the full archive into /pusr/local/ftp/pub/FreeBSD.
> When I run "cvsup supfile" I get this:
> 
> root at mirror1:~# cvsup /etc/supfile 
> Host not specified for collection "FreeBSD-archive"
> 
> 
> If you haven't guessed I'm not proficient in freebsd yet, my company
> Internap wants to set up an official mirror and this will live off a
> 100MB lan near our borders.
> 
> Can someone tell me what I've got wrong above?
> 
> Robert

Hope this helps

Alex

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