Michael Schwendt wrote: > Eric just raised a valid question, IMHO. In their attempts at being > the first to get the ISOs from RHN, people hit the server(s) real > hard and even get time-outs. What do they do with interrupted or > corrupted downloads? Do they start over again from scratch, wasting > lots of bandwidth? Or do they resume the previous download and at > the end find out that the MD5 fingerprint of the file doesn't match? > When that happens, rsync would be the cure. One of the RHN pages suggests curl -C - -O <long URL> which will resume the download. Hopefully this will result in a complete file. Of course you will feel the need of rsync if the result doesn't match the MD5. Michael Young
