That will be of limited help, as he wants to be able to start the
downloads, then disconnect his telnet/ssh session.
There are a couple of options, Kerry:
First, you can issue the wget command with the "&" at the end, which will
put the processes into the background...you can then disconnect and the
process(es) will still run. The drawback to this is that you can't
reconnect at a later time and check the status, other than checking the
filesize of the downloading files.
The other option is to use the "screen" package. "Screen" allows you to
place processes in the background, disconnect, then reconnect later, bring
"screen" back up, and monitor it as if you'd never left.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mitchell Henderson wrote:
> Use wget, It will retreive the files for you or you could use ncftp and just get
>iso1 iso2 iso3 iso4
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:51:00PM -0500, Kerry Miller wrote:
> > I had a brainstorm but it (like so many others...) may not work. I was
> > going to download the RH 7.1 iso's, but we've got a pretty slow connection
> > so I wanted to do it at night when our traffic was low. I can get into my
> > computers at work from home, so what I'd like to do is start downloading
> > each of the 4 files, each on a different virtual terminal. Is there a way
> > to control the virtual terms from home, like if I'm telnetted in? ( I
> > know...use ssh..., but it's the same problem) I can telnet into my box and
> > start the download, but when I log out won't it drop the ftp connection?
> >
> > Alternately, could I start an ftp download and put it in the background
> > some way so I could start 3 more downloads? Is there a way to keep the
> > download running after I disconnect from my telnet session? Or, is there a
> > better way to do it that I don't know about yet? Maybe I'll just have to
> > buy the cd's...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kerry Miller
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