Jim Hatridge wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I want to download packages from ftp-servers. (i.e. ftp.suse.com) in batch mode.
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Ideas?
Jürgen
Hi Juergen!
Looking in my SuSE manual it says to login as ftp. When I want to d/l anything there I use Midnight Commander with "cd <A HREF="ftp@ftp.suse.de">ftp://ftp@ftp.suse.de</A>">ftp@ftp.suse.de</A">ftp://ftp@ftp.suse.de</A</A>>" this lets me do what ever I want. I'll admit that I've not tried batch file d/l'ing so I don't know if this is what you want.
Hi Jim, as I mentioned, I've found the solution. Never the less, all other tips are usefull as well. did not thought that "mc" is like that. Did not know until a few days ago that "mc" can browse disks as well. ;-)) But I wanted _realy_ download at night when phone rates are cheap. (furthermore: my ISP does not charge time between uhh 0:00 and 6:00 am). But I did not want to use the alarmclock. ;-) If you create the file .netrc in your home directrory, with entrys like: default user anonymous password email@adress.de these defaults are used when you start ftp. (no other way to get behind that password request of ftp) I now can use: ftp < script.ftp with script.ftp like: open ftp.suse.com cd /suse_update get whatever/you/want /were/ever/it/goes/to get anything_else .... quit I start this with "at", that makes it a nice method after all. fetched ghostscript update last night ;-)) cheers Jürgen -- ========================================== __ _ Jürgen Braukmann e-mail: brauki@cww.de | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ========================================== /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e