Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:00:01 +0300 From: Alexander Derevyanko <der@pc759.cs.msu.su> To: Mark Ovens <FreeBSD.ORG!marko@pc759.cs.msu.su> Cc: FreeBSD.ORG!questions@pc759.cs.msu.su Subject: Re: Re-starting fetch(1) after modem drops the line Message-ID: <39E4B8B1.B7C80A5D@pc759.cs.msu.su> References: <20001009205805.F252@parish>
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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <p>Mark Ovens wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>I was installing a port and fetch(1) was 93% through d/l a 6MB file when <br>the modem dropped the line. I re-connected, but fetch didn't continue <br>(which doesn't surprise me).</blockquote> If you have dynamic allocated IP on you provider side, it will most of the time <br>doesn't continue. If you have static one, it can continue very well - i have such configuration, and it works great. <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <p>I tried sending it a SIGCONT but that had no effect. Eventually I sent it <br>SIGHUP which caused it to then try to d/l the file from another server <br>which, unfortunately, is much slower than the original server it was using. <p>So, is there anyway, in this situation, that I can make fetch(1) continue <br>with the d/l?</blockquote> If you have trouble to download big file, do it manuall via reget command on any ftp client or <br>with fetch -Rr URL. <br>If you already making fetch from the ports, do next think: copy destination file in /usr/ports/distfiles to another filename (or hard-link it somehow), when interrupt fetch <br>and manually execute fetch -rR URL -o destfile. <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <p>-- <br> 4.4 - The number of the Beastie <br>________________________________________________________________ <br>51.44śN FreeBSD - The Power To Serve <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">http://www.freebsd.org</a>; <br>2.057śW My Webpage <a href="http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark">http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark</a>; <br><a href="mailto:marko@freebsd.org">mailto:marko@freebsd.org</a> <a href="http://www.radan.com">http://www.radan.com</a>; <p>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org <br>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message</blockquote> </html> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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