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From: Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no>
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Steve Carney <carney@gvc.dec.com> writes:

> Can anyone recommend some ftp mirroring freeware that can deal with the
> "site group" and "site gpass" access set up on the beta directories?

We're running a perl script simply called "mirror". I think it's a
very good program, and it supports group/gpass according to the
man-page (haven't tested it myself).

It's available from src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/computing/archiving/mirror/.

> Currently, I'm mirroring the beta area by hand, but I'd like to have it
> done automatically.  At the end of this month, I'll be away for 4 weeks,
> so I'd like to get an automated mirror running before I leave.

mirror and cron are your friends.

-Toreo
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Tore Olsen <toreo@colargol.idb.hist.no> drift@colargol, TIHLDE, IDB HiST

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