We are always interested in new mirrors for Trustix Secure Linux. We offer the following protocols for mirroring:

• rsync: rsync.trustix.org::trustix/
• ftp://ftp.trustix.org/pub/trustix/
• http://http.trustix.org/pub/trustix/

Under the trustix/ tree, you will find the following structure:

• pre-releases
  From time to time we release public pre-releases. These generally have the same size as a full distribution, but may come and go on little or no notice.
• current
  This is a symlink to the latest release
• README
  A file containing some information to the user.
• releases
  This is where you will find all our supported releases. This will grow forever, so you may want to include only parts this. Note that we do update the latest released version tree, so this will change.
• updates
  This is the place for the updates of our packages. It will grow as we release new versions. We do not expect it to grow infinately though as we only intend to to keep X.2 around for older versions and X.0 and X.1 around only for the previous version.

If you want to mirror our distribution for public use, please send a mail to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it so we can add you to the mirror mailing list. Also please state if you wish this to be added to the list of mirrors for public use. As it looks now, we may also have to add a separate box for mirrors to download from.

Statistics

We would love to have statistics of the downloads from your mirror. It is by no means a requirement, and will only be used internally apart from the possible "30 000 people has downloaded TSL 2.0" which our marketing department no doubt would love to spread around. How (if you care to) you provide these statistics is totally up to you; we are quite satisfied with all from "grep trustix your-log-file | mail -s "Server logs from mysite.com" This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it " and "echo "We transferred 45GB last month from our trustix tree" | mail -s "Logs from mysite.com" This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it to statistics from programs such as xferlog.

Size of the distribution area

For the impatient: we suspect you may need up to 8GB free to mirror TSL in times of new releases. Usually, it will be around 6GB. You want to include only parts of the releases directory.

Now for the longer explanation: There are a few issues to consider.

• The releases will grow "forever". You may want to mirror only selective parts of this unless you have infinite disk space.
• There will be a time when there is both a soon-to-be-released version and an soon-to-be-moved version present at the same time. The 2.2 release is 1.5GB.
• The updates tree will grow as we release new versions. We will do our best to prevent it from getting insane, but we suspect that it may end up at around 1GB.
• The pre-releases tree is described below, but in general it may vary from 1k to a full 2GB on very short if any notice. We apologize for not being able to warn you in advance, and hope that if you consider this a problem, you are content with excluding this tree.

Now we do not expect the new releases to get any smaller, so if we say 6GB for the distribution itself at most and are kind to ourselves allowing the updates to consume 1GB, we expect the tree to take at around 6GB.

Hope this does not scare you.

Mirroring frequency

As we do release updates as soon as we can, we would recommend that you mirror us on a daily basis. However, major releases will be placed on our servers and announced on the mirrors mailing list approximately a week ahead of the official announcement, so it is an option to mirror once a week if that suits you better.

The pre-releases tree

From time to time we give out pre-releases versions of our releases. As they have a life spawn of less than two weeks, we have moved them out of the normal file tree. You can find it at the root level of the trustix/ tree. Size varies from 1k (the nothing-here-now README) up to the full size 1.7GB distribution. Please note that we may not announce the changes here too much in advance.

Questions?

If you have any questions not answered here, please do feel free to mail us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .