Subject: Re: ftp/anoncvs mirror
To: None <regional-nyc@netbsd.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>
List: regional-nyc
Date: 07/30/2007 09:52:39
Jan Schaumann wrote:
>
> So anoncvs2.us.netbsd.org and ftp8.us.netbsd.org (which used to be
> hosted at Stevens) have been unreliable/out of sync for a while now and
> are likely to just go away for reasons beyond my control.
>
> I still think it would be nice to have an anoncvs mirror on the East
> Coast, though, and NYCBug has offered several times in the past to
> physically host the machine in their cabinet at NYI. But we'd have to
> provide the machine and of course admin services.
>
> I don't mind setting things up and being in charge of the machine, but
> not being in NY at the time, I'd need remote hands every once in a blue
> moon. Well, and of course we'd need a machine.
>
> Does anybody have
>
> (a) a beefy enough machine to donate?
> (b) willingness to throw in some money to get one?
> (c) objections or alternatives?
What are the machine requirements?
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@pkgsrc.org>