DKNSS

Local mirrors, network and linux stuff

We now have a local speed test online.

This is in response to all those asking about download speeds from this mirror.

Should you have any problems with the test please let me know.

http://mirror.dknss.com/speedtest/

This is one of those things that I occasionally need to do, but always seem to forget.

I usually hit Google to find these commands and the process, however everyone seems to want to link to the /etc/localtime file instead of copying the file.  As this file is a main system file you need to ensure it is available at all times, so if you link accross a filesystem that becomes unavailable or corrupt, you potentially end up having issues while you try and recover your filesystems.

First step, find your time zone in /usr/share/zonedata, for me this is

/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW

Note that your timezone may be in a subdirecory of /usr/share/zoneinfo, as mine is shown above. Now the easy bit, copy the zone file to /etc/localtime, the following command should do it..

sudo cp -a /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW /etc/localtime

If you have trouble running the above command, you could always use the following process, bit longer but, still gets the same outcome ..

su -
cp -a /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/NSW /etc/localtime
cp: overwrite `/etc/localtime'? y
exit

You should now be able to run date and make sure your timezone settings are correct.

date
Sun May 17 09:41:25 EST 2009

Well, that should help me when I have to go through this process again, hope it helps someone else also ..

Hello All,

We have added some more content to our mirror servers.

A mirror of the centos 5 tree for i386 and x86_64 archs, both the base and updates has been added.

We are now mirroring the EL5 branch of the freshrpms repository also.

We will be creating some downloads that will make using these mirrored repositories easier to use.

As always if you have any content suggestions please let us know.

We have added another mirror to our servers.

We are now mirroring files from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ .

Let me know if there are some other regular files you download, and we can look at mirroring those as well.