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?
>
> 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 download the file so that I can just go to bed and it will get it for me. The file would be at something like:
ncftpget should work for you. By default it "redials" until it gets on;
you can limit the number of redials if you want though. It's included in
the ncftp package.