From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 03:47:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D2016A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 03:47:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta08-svc.ntlworld.com (mta08-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8028243D2F for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 03:47:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m54-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.84.54]) by mta08-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040321114727.WLAS5004.mta08-svc.ntlworld.com@m54-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net> for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:47:27 +0000 From: Ben Paley To: "freebsd -questions@" Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:42:00 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403211139.02480.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: fetch, modification time and -F X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 11:47:28 -0000 Hello, I'm on a free dial-up (crap but cheap, as the Levellers used to say) and the connection drops quite often. As a result I often get left with bits of files half downloaded. Abou half the time I can pick them up using -rR without any problems, and the rest of the time I get a "local modification time does not match remote blah blah" error, so I have to use -F to force it. That's not too bad if I'm actually at the machine, but as soon as I try to automate something it's a total wind-up: for instance, trying to do portupgrade -RF kde. So my question is how can I stop this happening? Should I set it somewhere (where?) so that fetch automatically assumes -F when run from make or portinstall or whatever? And would that be safe? OR, should I reset my system clock which I think is pretty accurate at the moment? OR, do I just have to put up with it till I can get a proper connection? Thanks for your help, Cheers, Ben