GNU Wget 1.10.2, and it's more an inconsitency than a bug.
Basically, if something goes wrong with the network connection
while downloading recursively, wget will time-out as expected, but
without reporting any kind of an error. No non-zero exit status,
at least.
So when I put this in a script;
while :
do
wget -c -r -T 33 -np \
'http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/docs/' && \
break || \
sleep 11
done
# End
This is what happens if the connection is dropped, or if there
was none to begin with;
--09:29:11--
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/docs/
=>
`www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/docs/index.html'
Resolving www.tux.org... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
FINISHED --09:29:11--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
Then the script exits, believing the download finished without
any trouble.
I think you should be able to replicate this easily, as long as
you're offline when you try it.
Thanks,
Patrick.
--
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a
substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe
experience is a substitute for intelligence.
-- Lyman Bryson
