[Casper] Package Replication

Roger Corbin rcorbin at mac.com
Mon Sep 22 16:19:38 PDT 2008


On 22-Sep-08, at 6:10 PM, Roger Corbin wrote:

> Do many of you have the new automatic scheduling of package  
> replication work yet in 6 ?
>
> We have over 50 distribution points so this would be a handy thing  
> to have.  Can't say that
> I have really seen it work correctly yet.
>
> There is also a feature where you can click a button to have it  
> correct the permissions on any distribution point.
> It propagates those permissions down throughout the share point.  
> When I tried this it seemed to mess up the permissions on
> the share point.  In fact later on after fixing those something  
> seemed to mess these permissions up again. Very odd. I haven't
> seen anything like that until we move to 6.01 from 5.x
>
> Also when I do a manual sync the old way using Casper Admin it seems  
> to be very slow.

Another issue with the scheduled package replication. I can't seem to  
find any logs about what
transpired. Did it sync anything ? Was it successful ? Were there  
problems ?
There doesn't  seem to be any logs about it. There doesn't even seem  
to be any generic rsync
logs that I can find. 


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