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-Spegla is a mirror program for FTP sites. It was written because I
-couldn't find any fast mirroring program for big mirrors. It makes a
+Spegla is a mirror program for FTP sites. It was written because the author
+couldn't find any fast mirroring program for big mirrors. It makes a
complete mirror of a FTP area.
-
-Spegla only take one command-line parameter, the config file. These
-parameters can be specified in it:
-
- - localdir where the mirror should go on your machine.
-
- - remotedir directory at the FTP server.
-
- - username user to log in as i.e. anonymous.
-
- - password password to use i.e. your email address.
-
- - host FTP server.
-
- - retries how many retries before quit. Defaults to 20.
-
- - retrytime how many seconds to wait before log in again after
- a timeout. Defaults to 150.
-
- - timeout how many seconds to wait to timeout. Defaults to 150.
-
- - skipdir which directories to ignore remote and local, can be
- several but only one per row.
-
- - dirlink not used for now.
-
- - logfile logfile, can be a file, stdout or stderr. Defaults
- to stdout.
-
-Blank lines and text after '#' are ignored.
-
-This is what's in the config file I use for the FreeBSD mirror of
-Walnut Creek's FreeBSD area.
-
-localdir = /ftp/pub/FreeBSD
-remotedir = /pub/FreeBSD
-username = anonymous
-password = jnilsson@ludd.luth.se
-host = ftp.freebsd.org
-timeout = 120
-retries = 300 # busy ftp server and lots of files.
- # Takes lots of hours to complete
- # and don't want to quit when we are
- # almost finished.
-retrytime = 120 # if network goes down don't consume
- # all retries to fast.
-logfile = freebsd.org.log
-skipdir = distfiles # don't have room for this yet.
-skipdir = incoming # no need for this.