Re: Moving services to a new server / IP ...

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Dave Page wrote:

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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> > Sent: 05 April 2004 15:14
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org;
> > pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Moving services to a new server / IP ...
> >
> > True, but all that means is that the script to do the updates
> > just needs to copy over the appropriate rsyncd.conf file that
> > gets generated, no?
> > That is, I believe, the only part that is database driven?
>
> No, there is a C prog that periodically scans the rsync logfile and sets
> the last sync timestamp in the DB based on when it sees connections from
> the mirrors. That's how we keep track of which mirrors are up to date.

'k, and the buildsite builds a hard copy of mirror-ftp.html, correct?
ohhhh, now I understand what you are getting at ... how periodic is that
C program run? Its something that could run remotely as long as the IP
of the remote VM is allowed to connect to the database, right?

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