Re: Permission problems(?) on non-us.debian.org::debian-security
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 05:59:10AM -0500, Mark Kahnt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 11:02 +0100, Robin Schroeder wrote:
> > Hello list!
> >
> > Since 7th of December we have the following errors from rsync while
> > mirroring non-us.debian.org::debian-security:
> >
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/erlang_49.1.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/freeamp_2.0.6.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/most_4.9.0.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/ppp_2.3.11.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/vrweb_1.5.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync: send_files failed to open
> > "/dists/potato/updates/main/source/zlib_1.1.3.orig.tar.gz" (in
> > debian-security): Permission denied (13)
> > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1166)
> >
> > My guess is that there are permission problems on non-us.debian.org.
> > Permissions on our site are set correctly and we don't have these files.
> >
> > For mirroring we use the following command:
> >
> > /usr/bin/rsync -vza --delete non-us.debian.org::debian-security
> > /export/mirror/debian-security
> >
> > Although we are not bothered by this problem, I am interested in finding
> > the reason for it. Has anyone a clue?
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Robin Schr??der
> > --
> > Ruhr-Universit??t Bochum
> > Institut f??r Theoretische Physik IV
> > Universit??tsstr. 150
> > D-44780 Bochum
> > Tel. 0234-32-28878
> > Fax: 0234-32-14177
> >
> >
>
> I'd suggest that it might have something to do with the fact that you
> are looking for Potato, which, well, is ancient. That was before what is
> now old-stable, aka Woody, and is no longer officially supported (and
> hasn't been since a year after the launch of Woody back in the early
> days of this millennium.) My guess is that the disk space was needed for
> something else - eg. currently supported distributions, so that those
> files that have lingered unchanged for years have likely been deleted.
> --
> Mark L. Kahnt
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Thank you for your response! I thought of something alike that. And of
course we don't have any Potato boxes here anymore. ;-)
Greetings!
Robin Schroeder
--
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV
Universitätsstr. 150
D-44780 Bochum
Tel. 0234-32-28878
Fax: 0234-32-14177
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