actually, that sounds like a very good idea. thats about what I am doing here... Jason wrote: > > > Perhaps the mirror sites are ALSO having trouble reaching the redhat > site. Seems plausible, as so many of you with great bandwidth and > perhaps even scripts to get them seem unable as well... > > > Perhaps someone should suggest to RedHat that they ought to have a > "Mirror User" login on their site. That is, allow a unique > username/password to anyone who agrees to provide a full mirror of the > redhat site to anyone else, free of charge, allowing at least XX (?) > number of users at once. > > RedHat could even verify the integrity of the program by randomly > attempting to retrieve the head of any given file on their site that > ought to be mirrored, say, once a week or so. If a machine failed the > weekly check, their username could then be entered into a checkup > list, which would attempt to verify a random file at a random time, > once a day, for the next week ... if the person failed all 7 attempts, > their mirror login would then be suspended and email sent to the > mirror site operator and redhat site operator. > > Clumbsy, but if current mirrors are operating with something similar > to "wget", it could dramatically improve things. > > -- > jkenner @ mindspring . com__ > I Support Linux: _> _ _ |_ _ _ _| > Working Together To <__(_||_)| )| `(_|(_)(_| > To Build A Better Future. | > > ________________________________________________ -- Make a few extra $$$. Join http://www.preocesstree.com/?sponsor=29027