CTM broke - last available Delta was April 19, please fix ASAP

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Helge Oldach wrote:
> Stephen Montgomery-Smith:
> 
>>I think I found the problem with the ftp sites for the CTM deltas.  Recently was
>>created a new xEmpty for cvs-cur.  It seems that rsync takes more than an hour
>>to download this file, by which time a new rsync daemon starts.  The effect
>>seems to be that the older rsync process simply stops (although it does not get
>>killed), and the new rsync process starts all over again.
>>
>>A fix to this problem is to reduce the number of times that the rsync update
>>takes place.  But really this seems to be a problem with rsync.  Any other
>>suggestions?
> 
> 
> Why do you start a new daemon at all? I am using rsync for copying
> snapshots of running jails to another box, and never found the need to
> restart rsyncd.
> 
> If you restart with
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rsyncd.sh stop && /usr/local/etc/rc.d/rsyncd.sh start 
> 
> the rc.subr script should hang until the first rsyncd has finished its
> transfers.
> 
> Helge
> 

I use inetd to start rsync.  Probably if I did it the way you suggest, this 
would fix the problems.