Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:06:15 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall REALLY needs a "reset FTP state" option, or something Message-ID: <96Dec16.200619pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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I just spent about 15 minutes carefully choosing which distributions to install, and then said "go". I came back an hour later, and it was 87% done with bin. Another hour later, and it was still 87% done with bin. The FTP connection had hung somehow. It's *really* frustrating to have two choices: stay hung, or reboot. Is there any way that a control-C while ftp'ing could allow another option of disconnecting and reconnecting to the same server? (Or, even better, a keepalive so that a connection that hasn't transferred a byte in an hour times out and you get the ftp reselection menu...) Bill
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