-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:06:54 +0100 (BST), M A Young 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. Thanks for answering, but basically, the questions remain unanswered. - -- Michael, who uses cURL like that regularly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+iKew0iMVcrivHFQRAjFLAJ4rSl9YWqujtYkCptzzFZjssJLriACbBcyG GI7Fxklx18ZgsZKEh5vkZbk= =xfqM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
