Re: [LUG] Download script

[David <hhdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SME Server? What's that?
On 13 Dec 2004, at 11:34, Rob Beard wrote:

> Quoting David <hhdave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > assuming your home web server is running Linux (or some other unix)
> > what I would do is use ssh to connect to the machine. That will save
> > you having to write or find a download manager - you can just use wget
> > or curl to do the downloading. The obvious problem with this is that
> > when you disconnect from the machine (presumably you don't want to
> > leave an ssh connection to your home machine open) the downloading
> > program will be terminated. The easy solution to this problem is to 
> > use
> > 'screen'. Screen is a fantastically useful program - it allows you to
> > have a logged in session even when you disconnect from your machine.
> > You can also, say, log in from work, connect to your session, do 
> > stuff,
> > disconnect and then reconnect to the same session from home.
> >
> > Basically, type:-
> >         screen
> > to create a new session. Then to disconnect from that session type
> >         ctrl-a, d
> > to reconnect to an existing session type:-
> >         screen -R -D
> >
> > I used to use this all the time to make my home machine download ISOs
> > from work.
> >
> > -- David
>
> Thats sounds like a good program, but I still have the problem off 
> SSHing into
> my server from work.  The server is running SME Server 6.0.
>
> Rob
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