David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 22:16:03 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote: >> David Wright wrote: >> > On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 20:51:55 (+0300), Nikos Macheras wrote: >> >> On 06/07/2016 01:50 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:29:28PM +0300, perlj...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >>There is a problem to a computer, >> >> >>It loses files, not very often, files downloaded from internet. >> >> >It *only* loses files downloaded from the internet? How do you download >> >> >those files? >> >> >Are you sure that this isn't something (perhaps the browser) cleaning >> >> >up old files? >> >> The last time, was with httrack, after download files (45 files), >> >> after some minutes dissapeared. repeated three times. The computer >> >> has not any port open on external interfaces (eth0,wlan0), it runs >> >> debian wheezy .On cron i dont see something that could remove theese >> >> files. >> >> Any suggestion? >> > >> > [also] >> > >> >> The Download target was $HOME >> > >> > Whose $HOME? It would be bizarre to download a website into your own >> > home directory. Someone changing files on the other side of the world >> > could change files in your own home directory. >> >> Well, if he's /Downloading/ something (e.g. the latest *.tgz for some >> sourcecode), one would imagine it's HIS $HOME (or at least $HOME of the >> currently logged in user). This is the default action in Iceweasel -- >> or, at least on my install it was. >> >> Or have I missed something somewhere? Seems the thread got broken >> somewhere, so not 100% certain if this is the latest info ... > > The OP hasn't posted a lot of information, so I made some assumptions. > > He mentions httrack and 45 files, so I assumed he was downloading a website > rather than, say, a single tgz. httrack would be overkill for that. > But how would you like someone else's website to determine your own > home directory's files and folder structure.
Ah, I see what you're getting at now -- the split in the thread threw me off what you were getting at with "someone else determining file/folder structure". I mean, if the intention was "download some remote directory in its entirety", you would pretty much start at "what they decided", and go from there (or at least I do when running wget / curl). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O|
