>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/12 11:44 am >>> >I'd like to use Yast Online Update (YOU) to get all the SLES8 fixes at >once but can't connect to the internet from my mainframe. >As a work-around I'm trying to figure out how to use wget to download >all the fixes. I plan to run wget on my PC to download fixes to a >Windows share that I can mount on my SLES8 guest and then point YOU to >the Windows directories. >Right now I'm stuck, can't get wget to download the fixes although it >connects ok to Suse's web site. > >Leland Lucius in Feb 21, 2003 discussion on this list, gave his wget >command string to download fixes but that command string isn't working >well for me. > >I run: >wget --tries=1 --mirror --cut-dirs=5 --no-host-directories >--http-user=xxxx --http-passwd=xxxxx >---[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].rpm,patch-*' >http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390/update/SuSE-SLES/8/ > >and wget starts by looking for a "index.html" file and doesn't find it:
>"--11:49:04-- http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390/update/SuSE-SLES/8/ >. => `index.html' > When you download your first initial set of patches I have found the following to work well: wget --http-user=USER --http-passwd=PASSWD -nH -np -r http://sdb.suse.de/download/s390/update/SuSE-SLES/8 We can then point our internal guests to the http server hosting the updates... If you grab the entire site it can take a while and so you should run this as a cron job or nohup it and run it from your shell in case you get disconnected... -- Derric Goodwin z/Linux Support (312)985-3312 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
