How do I download large files unattended.

[David Mandala]

Goto this URL and locate a site near you and use that URL to download
the updates that you want.


http://redhat.com/download/mirror.html


On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 17:49, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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!
> 

wget is not interactive, please read the man page for it. You enter a
complete URL and it gets it. Can use wild cards and get lots of files,
be careful it can and will download an entire web site if you enter a
incorrect URL.

For example:
wget
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/*.rpm
would get the entire directory of files.


> 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
> > >
> > > --
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