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Author: Bryce C
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Subject: Automatic FTP retry?
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The most simple would be an infinite loop.
while(true) do wget ftp://ftp.domain.com/pub/iso/thisfile.iso; done
I'm not positive on syntax but try it.

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 21:25, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Is there an FTP client, or script, that will keep trying to connect to an=

FTP server and download a specific file?
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> I want to download an ISO from a particular site but it always comes back=

with a 421 error, "too many users connected." I would like to fire off a =
script or client app that will keep trying to login to the server and downl=
oad the file so that I can just go to bed and it will get it for me. The f=
ile would be at something like:
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> ftp://ftp.domain.com/pub/iso/thisfile.iso.
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> Any hints?
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> Alan
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