How does a person 'use a mirror'? I always thought that a mirror site was 
merely a duplicate site in another location. That always did sound strange to 
me anyways!

I tried putting wget in place of ncftp. It accepted the first line but not the 
second. Here is what it says:

[root@localhost bmike1]# wget updates.redhat.com
--17:13:13--  http://updates.redhat.com/
           => `index.html.1'
Resolving updates.redhat.com... done.
Connecting to updates.redhat.com[66.77.185.39]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

    [       <=>                                                ] 9,707          
6.97K/s

17:13:15 (6.97 KB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [9707]

[root@localhost bmike1]# cd 7.2/en/os/i386
bash: cd: 7.2/en/os/i386: No such file or directory
[root@localhost bmike1]#
===
 
And that's what the FATsystem said!

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 07:58 am, David Mandala wrote:
> Two ways:
>
> 1) Use a mirror, Red Hat keeps their site SLOW to unpaid users.
> 2) Use wget instead of ncftp, read the man page. Some nice features as
> compared to an ftp type client.
>
> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 07:48, Michael Havens wrote:
> > If I don't sit there durring large file downloads it times-out due to
> > inactivity. How do I change it so that it doesn't time-out.
> >
> > Konsole says:
> >
> > XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm:   ETA:   8:10  451.46/511.39 kB  125.33
> > B/s =Remote read timed out.
> > XFree86-tools-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm:                451.46/511.39 kB  125.33
> > B/s Could not read reply from control connection -- timed out.
> > Passive mode refused.
> > get *.rpm: passive mode failed.
> > ncftp> updates.redhat.com
> >
> > --
> >
> > :-)~Mike~(-:
> >
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