On Friday 15 October 2004 09:15 pm, Kevin Geiss wrote:
> pppd has a flag called 'persist' which will make it dial back in again. if
> you are using wget, when the ppp connection is lost, wget's transfer
> will fail, but wget will continue to retry, and usually pppd can get
> logged back in before wget gives up entirely.
>
> I remember back in the day, downloading the rpms for a new redhat version
> (these were the bad old days when I used redat) overnight for 3 or 4
> nights straight using this method. be sure to use the -c flag on wget,
> it will pick up where it left off (even in the middle of a file). with
> -c you can kill wget at any time and start it up again later.
Thank you. That will help a lot!
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