[GRASSweb-list]markus: web grass.mirrors.html,1.77,1.78

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Author: markus

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+++ grass.mirrors.html	17 Feb 2004 11:15:29 -0000	1.78
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 <h2>
 Become a GRASS mirror site!</h2>
-<b>THANKS to the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, for recently establishing an Indian mirror, ...</b>
-<br>
 
 Help support your favorite Free Software GIS and become a mirror. Due to the
 high network traffic on our main site sometimes resulting in timed-out
 connections we encourage you to mirror this site.
 
-<p>A GRASS mirror site requires around 630 MB  space, the space requirements
-may vary due to the changing presence of precompiled binaries. If you would
-like to support the GRASS community, do not hesitate to
-<a href="mailto:weblist at grass.itc.it">contact us</a> and report the running
-mirror. To get it running, do following:
+<p>Requirements: A GRASS mirror site requires around 650 MB  space, 
+the space requirements may vary due to the changing presence of 
+precompiled binaries. If you would like to support the GRASS community,
+do not hesitate to <a href="mailto:weblist at grass.itc.it">contact us</a> 
+and report the <b>running</b> mirror. 
+
+<P>How to set up a mirror site:
 
 <br>The master site at ITC-irst (grass.itc.it) supports the <a
 href="http://rsync.samba.org/">"rsync"</a> software protocol to synchronize
 the mirrors automatically overnight. The idea of using "rsync" mirror
 software is that only changed files are downloaded which minimizes the
-network traffic. While the master site provides "rsync" access only
-to a few "tier 1" mirrors, those "tier 1" mirrors can be connected publicly.
+network traffic. The master site provides "rsync" access only
+to a few "tier 1" mirrors; you can then connect your mirror site
+to these "tier 1" mirrors (as they also provide "rsync" capabilities).
 
-<p>How to set up a mirror site:
+<p>Mirror site setup in greater detail:
 <ol>
 <li>Install the <a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync</a> software.
 <li>Check if you can connect - note the two '::' characters (this command 
     should display a welcome message):<br>
 <ul>
  <li> <tt>rsync://grass.itc.it/grass</tt> (master site, restricted to tier 1 mirrors)
- <li> <tt>rsync://ibiblio.org/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror)
- <li> <tt>rsync://rsync.planetmirror.com/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror)
- <li> <tt>rsync://hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror)
+ <li> <tt>rsync://ibiblio.org/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
+ <li> <tt>rsync://rsync.planetmirror.com/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
+ <li> <tt>rsync://hgeo02.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/</tt> (tier 1 mirror, provides "rsync" for other mirrors)
 </ul>
 
 <li>Define a daily cron-job (in 'crontab') for rsync (example):<br>
     <tt>/usr/bin/rsync -r --delete --times --links --bwlimit=200 ibiblio.org::grass /mirror/grass/</tt><br>
-    This will copy/update the grass site to your local directory /mirror/grass/
+    This will copy/update the GRASS site to your local directory /mirror/grass/
 <li>Check if the synchronization works the next day(s).
 <li>Announce the new mirror site for this mirror list to <a href="mailto:weblist at grass.itc.it">us</a>.
 </ol>
-If you are interested to serve as tier-1 mirror, please let us know.
+If you are interested to serve as tier-1 mirror (most welcome!), 
+please let us know.
 
 <h2>
 Distribute GRASS!</h2>