Re: ftp.kernel.org

[Ricky Beam]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>They switched to vsftpd very recently ... presumably then.

That would explain it.  The default is to turn it off.

>Why would you mirror via ftp, instead of rsync anyway?

I have more control with mirror.  And I've been using mirror for
*ahem* a decade.  I've been using rsync for mirroring debian, but
it's slow and often fails to complete.  Mirror has never let me
down ('tho it has deleted entire archives before *grin*)

--Ricky


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