Gus Wirth wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
About 10 years ago, when I was on w95, I had a program called
FileHound. It was the best downloader program I have ever used. It
had many switches you could configure to suit things more to your
liking. I set it to be *extremely* agressive with the bandwidth
whenever the program was not minimized, but to be very meager with
the bandwidth when minimized. If memory serves me, I was able to
just point it to a file on ftp://someSite.com/pathTo/file or
http://someSite.com/pathTo/file and it would figure out the rest. It
wouldn't bother me beyond that. And it was very aggressive. If it
failed one way, it would try another. If a download broke, it would
automatically restart it (or in most cases, would actually *resume* it).
I have never since seen a program that convenient *OR* that
aggressive. After 10 years, I would think that such things should
become more prevalent.
Why do the best things seem to devolve, or go extinct, or just not
catch on?
I miss that FileHound program. I wish the author would port it to
Linux.
Anyone know of anything even close to it on Linux?
wget
wget is a command line program that does most of what you have
described, except the automatic throttling part. That can be handled
with nice. Use it like so:
wget http://someSite.com/pathTo/file
So, are you saying that nice doesn't just make things be nicer about CPU
usage, but modem usage also? That would be great. It would be nice if
downloads would soak the connection _*except*_ when *anything-else*
tried to use the modem.
See the man page for further info. wget can be used to grab entire web
sites if desired.
Could I get yum to use wget instead of whatever it is that it currently
uses? (yum gives up too easily. Whenever I got desperate, and yum was
choking on rpmforge's header file download, I would use Konqueror to
download it (resuming the download after it died every 12%), chown to
root, and mv the file to the proper place. Then yum was happy. But
doing it like that is a PITA.) (Konqueror resumed the download of the
header file. Firefox always restarted it. gFTP is too much of a PITA
to use. I don't recall trying anything else.) (I suppose I could have
started Konqueror as root, and then downloaded the header file directly
to its proper place. But even that would have been more of a PITA than
it should be. yum should try to resume downloading header files. Thru
Konqueror, I had to resume 9 times (every 12%), but it got it.)
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Ralph
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