Monitor mirror status via 'mirmon'?

[mirrors at tds.net]

So,

If only someone with access to the master server could add a "touch 
/var/ftp/pub/freebsd/TIMESTAMP" job to run every hour...

Then at that point anyone can setup the mirmon stuff on any server..

Shane.


On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> 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 :-).
> 
>