On December 3, 2005 10:09 am Robert Persson was like: > On December 3, 2005 05:40 am Martins Steinbergs was like: > > if there isn't any files or folders under /websites then it isn't problem > > with httrack. if mirroring goes wrong, then there at least should be > > project folder containing hts-cash folder and hts-log.txt; index.html > > files. sorry, not much help from here. > > martins > > But that's not what I've been saying, Martins. httrack +does+ create > directories in ~/websites, including hts-cache. It also creates > hts-log.txt, index.html, a lock file and a couple of gifs. However > hts-cache is the only one of those directories with anything in it (aside > from subdirectories and sub-subdirectories), and index.html is an empty > file. What there is in hts-cache is a file called new.dat which contains a > lot of the html that ought to have been put into the folders, all rolled > into one huge file.
It seems that the problem has been simply that httrack is incredibly slow at downloading pages, and that it also caches a lot of them before committing them to wherever they are supposed to end up. This is why it looked like nothing was happening whenever I tried to use it. Many thanks to everyone who has helped me here. Robert -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
