File README.SUSE of Package GeoIP
Automatically fetching GeoIP "free" databases ============================================== As provided by Maxmind, LLC, the GeoIP library packages possess tools to fetch the licensed country/city/organization etc. databases they provide, but no such tool to fetch the free Country/City equivalents. Additionally, the database version shipped with the base package will be the current one at the time a new library release ships. Therefore, the shipped database gets less accurate and obsolescent if the library has not been updated in some time. Therefore these databases can become out-of-date quite quickly unless the user manually fetches and replaces them regularly; Maxmind generally release updates once a month (on the 1st/2nd day of the month). Script ====== * geoip-fetch [-a] When called without parameters it will fetch GeoIP, GeoIPv6 and GeoIPASNum data (around 2 MB download, 4 MB on drive). If -a parameter is provided then the script will also fetch GeoIPCity data (around 25 MB download, 45 MB on drive). Requirements ============ * shell, curl to fetch and gzip to decompress the archives Usage ===== Script can be called manually (as root), but the best solution is to add a crontab entry similar to this one: # Fetch all GeoIP databases at 6am on the 2nd of the month 00 06 2 * * /usr/sbin/geoip-fetch -a Author ====== Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@suse.cz>, Ludwig Nussel <lnussel@suse.de> heavily inspired by fetch from Michael Fleming <mfleming@enlartenment.com> License ======= MIT License
