[ILUG] Wget

[Jason Corcoran.]

The waitretry option uses a linear backoff, so for your 800 seconds it will 
retry after 1 sec, then 2 sec then 3 so this equaltes to the sumation of 1 to 
800 seconds which = 319600 seconds.

You should prob use the --wait option instead.

Jason


On Tuesday 15 January 2002 16:45, Ross O'Gorman wrote:
> Also, tryed
> wget --waitretry=800 "ftp://......"
> am i writting this wrong?
>
> sorry about the two mails!
> ross
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Ross O'Gorman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > i want to use wget to get a file
> > but the server is busy, so i want to set wget to try connect to the
> > server ever 60second say....
> > I had a look at the man page but found nothing that does exactly this..
> >
> > anyone know?
> > thanks
> > ross
> >
> > (it has things like if a download fails how often to retry it(this does
> > not work, or else i did it wrong)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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