Hi,

Here at my departement of uni I have created an internal ftp server which contains most linux versions which we use here. The reason for this is that ftp install will go smooth and it is not necesarry to download first cds and burn them afterwards to then throw away.

Today for the first time somebody wanted to do an ftp install of suse 9.3. Everything went fine but the package list was only 34MB big instead of 2GB. Does anybody have an idea how this is possible
I use vsftpd
The suse mirror is done with a script containing the following

DEST="/var/ftp/pub"
RSYNC_OPTIONS="-auv --delete --hard-links"
# Suse source
SRC="ftp.belnet.be:ackages/suse/suse/i386/"
EXCL="9.0/ live-*/ update/8.2/ 9.1-personal-iso/ **/iso/ **/src/ **/source/ **src.rpm supplementary/ products/"
INCL=""

EXCLUDE=""
INCLUDE=""

for i in $EXCL; do
EXCLUDE=$EXCLUDE"--exclude $i "
done
for i in $INCL; do
INCLUDE=$INCLUDE"--include $i "
done
rsync $RSYNC_OPTIONS $EXCLUDE $INCLUDE $SRC $DEST/suse/

echo "putting the permisions okay"
chown -R ftp:ftp /var/ftp/pub
chmod -R 644 /var/ftp/*
find /var/ftp/ -type d -exec chmod 555 '{}' \;


does anybody have an idea how this is possible?

thanks

klaas