Sup server at nic.funet.fi

[Kai Vorma]

Nic.funet.fi now mirrors freebsd-current and ports (no distfiles
collection yet) from sup.freebsd.org. Secure/eBones collection from
sup.internat.freebsd.org is available, too. If there is need I can
also start mirroring freebsd-stable 1) and perhaps NetBSD.. Nic also
mirrors ftp.freebsd.org.

Nic is a big ftp/www-server owned by FUNET (Finnish university
network). It is an AlphaServer 3000/900 with 320MB RAM, about 50GB
RAID-5 disk and it is connected to FUNET through FDDI and
(experimental) ATM.

Collections are updated twice a day (currently at 0230 and 1430 GMT)
and current client limit is 50. All European users and especially
users from the Nordic countries are welcome.

Here is a sample entry for supping from nic:

src-usrsbin release=current host=nic.funet.fi hostbase=/pub/mirrors/sup.freebsd.org base=/usr prefix=/usr/src login=ftp delete old use-rel-suffix

Notice the entry "login=ftp". I didn't want to create a new pseudo
account so sup uses an existing account. You can get the complete sup
files from

  ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/sup.freebsd.org/

You may get lots of "Updated.." when supping but it shouldn't be
harmful (other than slowing sup down a bit). It is probably caused by
some nightly administrative job that changes the ctime of directories.

If you have any problems please send email to me <vode at hut.fi>.

..vode


1) Don't try to sup freebsd-stable now, because the collections do
   exist but they are empty - sup would delete your files..