[plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of James Devenish
> Sent: Friday, 6 August 2004 4:23 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] mirroring and updating a remote http directory
> 
> In message <1091779938.24691.21.camel at rasputin.localnet>
> on Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:12:18PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Given that it's an antivirus company, I'd say they'll be doing 
> > everything they can to get clients to ALWAYS see the very latest 
> > version.
> 
> I don't understand your reasoning. There is only one version 
> of each file, hence the oldest version is also the very 
> latest version. They will force caches to refetch unmodified 
> content (which is not nice for byte-charged organisations).
> 

Two things

1) Use Vet 10.6x as it downloads incremental updates
2) Setup a Master Setup on a windows box, and call it the vet server:-
(not that it has to be the file server....)
(on vetserver)R:\>vetsetup /master or unzip setup32.exe /master
(on vetserver) \\vetserver\vetauto\setup.exe 
(in logon scripts ) \\vetserver\vetauto\setup.exe
Let the vet server check the updates and hand out the sigs during every user
logon.

It's designed to run that way. Vet does not even like linux in one bit.
Or you could grab the updates via ftp (which supports timestamps) from
ftpav.ca.com

Regards,

CraigF.