From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 19 18:50:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA08342 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:50:27 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA08335 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 1995 18:50:26 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA21826; Wed, 19 Apr 95 19:43:55 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504200143.AA21826@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Install Wish To: cstruble@vt.edu Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 19:43:55 MDT Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Craig Struble" at Apr 19, 95 05:12:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Oh great installation gods, I wish that I might have a "Retry" option > during FTP installation, so that if the server is busy and fails to allow > me to FTP the base distribution during install, I can try, try again. Redirecting the ncftp input from /dev/null to cause it to exit on failure fixes this. Looping can be provided with a shell "while". Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.