From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Dec 17 5:23:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC26B15076 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 05:23:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11yxLR-0005j3-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:22:53 +0200 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:22:53 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/4172: suggest reconnection option added to fetch Message-ID: <19991217152252.A21917@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <199912170948.BAA17861@freefall.freebsd.org> <199912171317.IAA60345@rtfm.newton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199912171317.IAA60345@rtfm.newton> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 1999-12-17 (08:17), Mikhail Teterin wrote: > No, ``-a'' is for "soft failures". It will not retry if the server > died in the middle of the process... So you want fetch to continue trying through several hard failures that may indicate network disconnection, servers dying, nuclear war, and other nasty things? A 'hard failure' is _supposed_ to be a show-stopper, surely? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message