Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? I've had success with this only because I have a static IP address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic addressing, then I think you can forget it Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Michael Tempsch wrote: How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? Yep, that is it, dselect's ftp method implements reget, which is like crash recovery in zmodem. Shaya Or is there more to it? Maybe better to ftp updated packages by hand and point dselect to them? But that is definately not as neat as just pointing dselect to the site and periodically checking on progress and if necessary reconnect... /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp..
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? I've had success with this only because I have a static IP address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic addressing, then I think you can forget it Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 If I remember correctly, my FTP went down a couple of times during dselect. I got the connection back relativly quickly, but sometimes with a new address. I don't think the FTP part of dselect will continue in the middle of a file transfer, but dselect as a whole will pick up on incomplete files and finish them off. You might have to exit and rerun dselect, however. Take this with a grain of salt, as my link has been pretty stable lately. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
Kevin == Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? Kevin I've had success with this only because I have a static IP Kevin address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic Kevin addressing, then I think you can forget it No it works fine. dselect notices after a short while that it is no longer connected and checks to see what it did get. (including excluding any partially retrieved packages) And goes into install mode 'Do you want to install the packages retrieved?' or some such. Just type n and hit install again. It'll reget the partial file and continue on. When you got them all install them. :) (Happens to me all the time) Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. Bach -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks (Upgrading by shaky ftp...)
Thank you all for replying! (Kevin Traas, Shaya Potter, Rob Williams, Greg de Freitas, James LewisMoss) From your responses I conclude that dselect, as I thought, will do the right thing. I just wanted to make _sure_ it wouldn't mess things up... Seems like the phoneline will be busy tonight, /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading by shaky ftp...
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? Or is there more to it? Maybe better to ftp updated packages by hand and point dselect to them? But that is definately not as neat as just pointing dselect to the site and periodically checking on progress and if necessary reconnect... /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
