Re: why transfer limits on ftp.postgresql.org ?

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why transfer limits on ftp.postgresql.org ?
Date: 2000-11-14 19:04:40
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0011141503150.91801-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> when trying to do
> > get -R RedHat-6.x RedHat-7.0 Mandrake-7.x
>
> I got
>
> get RedHat-7.0: server said: Permission denied on server. (Transfer
> limits exceeded)
>
> aftre all of RedHat-6.x was retrieved
>
> is there any reason for this ?

Yes, we don't want ppl to "mirror" off the central server using FTP ... we
have rsync setup that all the mirror sites use to update their code, and
don't even allow them any special access for doing bulk transfers ...

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