Hi Mauro, thanks for the help. I have Wget 1.10, but I tried also with other Linux boxes with older versions, and same problem; the full output with your options is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] IFM]$ wget -S -d ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10 on linux-gnu. --18:55:03-- ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum => `portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum' Resolving www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de... 129.206.32.243 Caching www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de => 129.206.32.243 Connecting to www-proxy.physi.uni-heidelberg.de|129.206.32.243|:3128... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x0808a348 (new refcount 1). Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server response, closing control connection. Closed fd 3 Retrying. Does it help? I tried also via ssh from another PC that has direct access to the net, and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> wget -S -d ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.1 on linux-gnu. --18:56:20-- ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/snapshots/portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum => `portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum' Resolving ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com... 213.203.218.123 Caching ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com => 213.203.218.123 Connecting to ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com|213.203.218.123|:21... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x08088c68 (new refcount 1). Logging in as anonymous ... 220 Welcome to MESH-Solutions GmbH anonymous ftp mirror service. --> USER anonymous 331 Please specify the password. --> PASS Turtle Power! 230 Login successful. --> SYST 215 UNIX Type: L8 --> PWD 257 "/" --> TYPE I 200 Switching to Binary mode. changing working directory Prepended initial PWD to relative path: pwd: '/' old: 'gentoo/snapshots' new: '/gentoo/snapshots' --> CWD /gentoo/snapshots 250 Directory successfully changed. conaddr is: 213.203.218.123 --> PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (213,203,218,123,81,61) trying to connect to 213.203.218.123 port 20797 Created socket 4. --> RETR portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum (59 bytes). Length: 59 (unauthoritative) 100%[=========================================================================================>] 59 --.--K/s Closed fd 4 226 File send OK. Closed fd 3 18:56:20 (4.69 MB/s) - `portage-20060525.tar.bz2.md5sum' saved [59] But I need to do that from my PC (I want to update my Gentoo installation) instead of ssh-wgetting per hand every single file the updating requires. Ciao, Leo --- Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi leonardo, > > could you please tell us which version of wget you are using > and post > the output of wget with the -S and -d options turned on? > > it's impossible to find out what's the problem with the simple > output > you provided. _______________________________________________ Della Pietra Leonardo Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Heidelberg Philosophenweg 12 - D-69120 Heidelberg - DE tel: ++49-6221-549 367 - fax: ++49-6221-475 733 http://www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~dpietra _______________________________________________ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com