Mirror monitor for meta data repos

[david]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>Hopefully you can tell the difference between
>a mirror that is full from mirrors that are just plain dead via the
>messages the servers return back to your process. Full mirrors that
>can't be probed shouldn't be marked in the same way as dead mirrors. 
>I have no problem informing users that a mirror is full in the
>webpage. But full mirrors shouldnt be removed from the dynamically
>created mirrorlist nor should users be encouraged to contact a
>mirror-admin if the mirror is full instead of dead and unresponsive.
>
>
>-jef
>  
>
Yes, my probes, written in c, return the http error codes as exits 
codes.  These codes should let us determine pretty well the status of 
the mirror.
Now, to figure how to slurp the exit codes along with the return values 
into perl.
-dtf