Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.09.14 11:34:38 +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> In an out-of-band discussion related to ftp/www/cvsup.bg.FreeBSD.org,
> George Danchev mentioned 'mirmon', a utility for monitoring the
> 'up-to-dateness' of project mirror sites based on the timestamp of
> a file touched hourly on the master site:
> 
> http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/henkp/mirmon/
> 
> Would it be a good idea to run something like that for the FreeBSD
> mirrors?  I think a file with a timestamp updated hourly would not
> put too much stress on the mirrors.

I think it would be a very good idea.  I have been looking a bit at
doing it for the website, but I have never gotten around to doing
anything about it, and I don't really have the time at the moment
either.  So IMO it would be great if somebody(tm) did something about
it :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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