On 17-Feb-99 Shawn Craver wrote:
> I have a Red Hat 5.2 system up and running and want to schedule it to
> download StarOffice overnight and then shutdown. I've already compiled a
> new kernel with APM support and I know how to use cron to schedule it to
> dial up to my ISP and then to close the connection and shutdown when it's
> done. My question is how to set up a script that would open the ftp
> connection, and continue at the point where the download last left off (I
> generally use ncftp, but have other progs too).
>
> --Shawn Craver
> University Of Connecticut
> Computer Science and Engineering
> Undergraduate Student
This article tells you an easy way to do it:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue34/izquierdo.html
You can also use something like wget (I think that is the name) and you can
find it at freshmeat.
--
Andrew
