Paul Bickerstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I'm using wget version "GNU Wget 1.10.2 (Red Hat modified)" on a fedora > core5 x86_64 system (standard wget rpm). I'm also using version 1.10.2b > on a WinXP laptop. Both display the same faulty behaviour which I don't > believe was present in earlier versions of wget that I've used. > > When the internet connection disconnects wget automatically tries to > redownload the file (starting from where it was disconnected). > > The problem is that it is consistently failing to find the file. The > following output shows what is happening. > > wget -c ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/blast/nr.*.tar.gz [...] > Retrying. > > --14:13:54-- > ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/blast/nr.00.tar.gz > (try: 2) => `nr.00.tar.gz' > Connecting to bio-mirror.jp.apan.net|150.26.2.58|:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not required. > ==> PASV ... done. ==> REST 315859600 ... done. > ==> RETR nr.00.tar.gz ... > No such file `nr.00.tar.gz'. > [...] > > I have checked and the files are there and have not moved or altered in > any way. > > I believe that the problem is almost certainly associated with the > logged item "CWD not required" after a reconnect. > > Cheers I encountered the same situation and solved it this way: Call wget with -B (--base) option to set base directory and with -i (--input-file) to point to a file containing the relative URLs you want to download. Not tested, but it should look like this wget -c --base=ftp://bio-mirror.jp.apan.net/pub/biomirror/blast/ --input-file=urls.txt with urls.txt containing nr.*.tar.gz Hope it helps you. Georg
