[ILUG] Mozilla M18 latency

[Dave Burke]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:23:34PM +0000, Dave Wilson wrote:
> 
> Netscape 6 is based on last month's code, and has a lot of extra stuff added.
> I suspect most of the members of this list wouldn't be that interested in the
> extra stuff, which is heavy on memory. Grab a nightly. Perhaps I should
> arrange to mirror them.


Nightlys are avalablle from 
ftp.esat/net//mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest



Prob no use, but a wee little script, i wrote to grab the latest build every
morn, before I get into work....


#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Script to d/l mozilla every morning before I get in
# DJB - 27/9/2000
#

use Net::FTP;

my $ftp_server = "ftp.esat.net";
my $mozilla_dir = "/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest";
my $mozilla_binary = "mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz";
my $local_file = "/home/dave/mozilla.tar.gz";
my $home_dir = "/home/dave";
my $anon_password = "dave\@genesiseurope.net";

$ftp = Net::FTP->new($ftp_server, Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("anonymous",$anon_password);
$ftp->cwd($mozilla_dir);
$ftp->get($mozilla_binary, $local_file);
$ftp->quit;

system ("rm -rf $home_dir/package");
chdir ($home_dir);
system ("tar zxvf $local_file");