On 10-Dec-2000 hello opined:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to manage three downloads at the same
> time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on
> different workspaces.
> After I started the process I dad to leave for
> some hours. When I had look at about 2 hours all
> three processes had bee ceased. There was an error
> message:
>
> Maybe your server dropped the connection
> (horrible translation but it will do), try to
> reconnect later....
>
> Okay, my question is if it is possible to do it
> the described way and if there are better ways to
> do it ( please leave the RH-Network which is a
> annoying alternative for me because of very slow
> download performances)
It's possible to do, but not a very useful thing on a dialup. If it's
manual dial, you lose the connection at bad times and have to start all
over.
A better method is a download manager. I use 'Webdownloader for X' or
whatever it's called ('nt' on the commandline) and set it to download one
file at a time, sometimes at noght when nobody is awake. This particular
version saves what it's already retrieved in a dot-file and can pick up
where it left off if you stop it or something else interrupts. There are
others as well and somebody I'm sure can shed some light on what those
are called. I settled on this one because it does what I need.
It appears you may have had the line drop and the dowloads terminated.
That could be solved with both a download manager and demand dial.
If you aren't using demand dial, you might look into setting that up. If
you pay by how long on the 'net you can make different configs and use
scripting to change them as needed. I've used in the past a set that
would change between demand dial and manual dial. That required some
extra config files for /etc/ppp and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts plus a
couple of scripts for copying and restarting networking.
That in conjunction with a download manager can be all you need to do
these types of things.
Another thing that's helped me is setting up squid to do caching. That
way if the download stops in the middle for some reason, the part that
was already retrieved is saved in a cache and I don't have to start all
over at the beginning.
I'm not a scripting genius (nor any other type) but I can try to help if
you want to try doing things this way.
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