On 01/15/2013 08:05 AM, Lázaro Morales wrote:
Some time ago, Robert Moskowitz said:

Well the new release is out, and I am away at IEEE 802 wireless meeting across the continent from my server.

Normally when I am fetching a new distro, I am local and VNC into my server (over SSH), open a terminal window and start the wget. At any time I can reopen a VNC connection and see how the download(s) is doing. But from here it is a number of island hops to get to that server, and does not always work. I CAN do only moderately painful via a number off SSH hops. So other than adding the wget(s) to crontab (I will do that anyway for the updates tree), or ending the wget command with '&' (and then not really knowing when it completes), how might I best remotely trigger these downloads so when I get home friday, they are there for me to work on?



You can pass the -o option to `wget´ to create a log file for the download and then
you can just check that file. (I recommend you to use `nohup´ too)

Example:

# nohup wget ftp://someserver.org/somefile.iso -o /tmp/wget-log &
# cat /tmp/wget-log | grep saved # To check when the download is finished

It is going, but I got the message:

 nohup: ignoring input and appending output to `nohup.out'

and there is a file nohup.out in the directory I am downloading to; right now it is empty.


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