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> On Thu, 27 May 2004, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> >They switched to vsftpd very recently ... presumably then.
>
> That would explain it. The default is to turn it off.
>
> >Why would you mirror via ftp, instead of rsync anyway?
>
> I have more control with mirror. And I've been using mirror for
> *ahem* a decade. I've been using rsync for mirroring debian, but
> it's slow and often fails to complete. Mirror has never let me
> down ('tho it has deleted entire archives before *grin*)

Agreed - fmirror is so much more reliable than rsync (imho) that it makes
rsync into a worst-case option for retrieving files.

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