-- $Id: RESOURCES,v 3.2 1996/01/08 09:49:38 joke Rel $

  *  RESOURCES NEEDED?

   Besides 30MB (>100MB uncompressed) disk space you'll need Larry Wall's
perl(1) language (version 5.003!) being installed on your system; the mirror
software version 2.8 is actually a collection of perl scripts.

  *  MAN POWER?

   EClairs run automatically; there's the mirror software, and an entry in the
.crontab file of the local maintainer. Hence the mirror is activated as
specified by the crontab interval, and after execution of the script e-mail is
sent to the local maintainer containing the logfile of the session for
notification; only when something went wrong, you'll need to check the
archive; that's all.

  *  HOW TO SET-UP?

   I'll provide you with a complete systems set-up; i.e. mirror & config files
as soon as I know the name of your FTP server (and it's IP address) and the
directory the "EC/" folder gets into. Then I create a new banner for this
EClair (cf ENCORE:/eclairs), and update the set-up files according to your
needs.

At some EClairs, I have a shell account (user: joke/group: encore) and do the
the set-up; but this is usually at places where I also do other work (SFI,
SWU); at other places, I usually suggest to create a user: encore/group:
encore with ~encore/.crontab holding the mirror information. Then a local guru
(you?) can watch over this user's activities; and read the e-mail logfiles as
time permits.

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  Please refer to the toplevel README file ../EC/README for further
  explanations. A handbook to this service is in ../EC/handbook.
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