Re: Mirroring PostgreSQL related content

["Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:

> On Friday 21 April 2006 11:59, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > > Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > > After seeing reports of some very interesting sounding articles that
> > > > were hosted elsewhere are now 404...
> > > >
> > > > Do we make any efforts to mirror the content of PostgreSQL related
> > > > stories or articles? Presumably this would require contacting authors
> > > > for permission, but perhaps we can find some enthusiastic newbies to do
> > > > that...
> > >
> > > It is a heck of a lot more then that... most authors don't have rights to
> > > allow postgresql.org to do that.
> >
> > Are there any good 'link checkers' that we could run on the site, say on a
> > daily basis, that would check for failed links?  I normally use the web
> > based ones, but for this we'd need something good to run from the command
> > line ...
>
> wget, lynx, fetch.........

I didn't know they had an 'auto check' mode taht could be run from cron 
... can you let me know what args should be used to traverse the www site 
to report just those links that are dead?  then i can get this into cron 
...

thanks ...

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