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MIRROR
HOW-TO

Mirror: Quick Start Guide for FWTK.ORG

(from the "Mirror Quick Start Guide for the Impatient")
 If you are NOT impatient what you should do is:
  1. Download mirror from the below:

    2. mirror.tar.gz
    mirror.zip
     
  2. If you want, you can read the mirror documentation:

    3. https://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/
Here are the quick install steps:
  1. Get the latest version of mirror (see above) an extract it into a suitable directory (e.g. $HOME/mirror or c:\mirror).

    2.  
  2. IMPORTANT: Install the wu-ftpd patch-ftp.pl patch. For your own safety, you should also install the security fix mentioned in security_note.txt.

    3.  
  3. Check whether Perl is installed on the machine you are about to install mirror on.  If it isn't then either get your support staff to install perl or wander round https://www.perl.com/ and pull back a suitable copy of perl and install it.

    4.  
  4. Run

    5.          perl install.pl here
    if you want to install mirror as a command available to everyone on your system (that's harder and you'll have to read the full documentation).  But for most users it is enough to run mirror from the directory you extracted it into.
     
  5. Edit the mirror.defaults to customize it for your system. You should probably change:

    6.            hostname
                local_dir
                remote_password
                mail_to
     
  6. Download the www-fwtk-org mirror pref file. Save it in the "packages" directory.

    7.  
  7. Modify the www-fwtk-org file to include your correct e-mail address and home directory.

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  8. Test mirror to see what it would do

    9.                mirror -n packages/www-fwtk-org
     
  9. Run mirror for real.  I suggest the first time you do

    10.               mirror -d packages/www-fwtk-org
    so you can see what mirror is actually doing.  If it appears to work OK then you can drop the -d for future runs.
     
  10. Add the mirror program to your CRON table. I recommend that you mirror the site nightly, but since we don't change very often, you should be able to mirror every other day (or even weekly if you notify me)

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    E-mail me with any problems. My address is [email protected]