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mirror - Perl based util to mirror two directories by FTP ChangeLog

Web site:

http://wwwtest.sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/

HOWTO

# mirror 2.9
# ==========
# perl

cd
test -f installed/mirror-2.9.tar.gz && mv installed/mirror-2.9.tar.gz .
test ! -f mirror-2.9.tar.gz &&
wget http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/mirror-2.9.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
find -type d -maxdepth 1 -name "mirror-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
mkdir -p mirror-2.9
cd mirror-2.9
tar xzvf ~/mirror-2.9.tar.gz
chown -R root.root .
perl install.pl here
cd ..
ln -s mirror-2.9 mirror
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/mirror-*.tar.*
mv mirror-2.9.tar.gz installed/

# Now either read /usr/local/mirror/quickstart.html or
# /usr/local/mirror/index.html, depending on how patient you are.