The www.ibm.com site does not allow pings. I normally use a different site to test. You will need your Novell userid and password. The syntax (with wget) would be wget -m -np https://userid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/otherdirs/
The same process would work on any OS that has wget (or curl or ...) working on it. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Duerbusch Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 3:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: setting up a patch server That would be great! I just got a new PC. I'm not sure about its networking abilities...yet. (I can't ping www.ibm.com, but the IP address comes back. I think this means I've connected to a good DNS server, but the node (www.ibm.com) has the ping port blocked. Or that we have some of the ping ports blocked.) Anyway wget www.ibm.com did return an index.html. It would be interesting to see your script to determine how (or if) I need to have my Novell userid/password for my SLES maintenance contract. Also, if this process works on Windows, can't the same process work for zLinux? Eventually, I would rather build a maintenance server there and keep microslop out of the picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
