Hello, I am sure I have found a bug in wget 1.8.2 and earlier.
Symptom: exit status is 0 when recursive ftp fails due to failed login. An ftp server may refuse login for temporary reasons, such as maximum logins, too busy, etc.. I don't mean that wget will detect such reasons, only that the user might be aware of such reasons. If a wget user knows that he has a valid login, he can expect that a login failure is temporary, and retry by invoking wget in a shell loop -- but only if wget exits failure when the login fails. For example, this script will not work with wget: <script> #! /usr/local/bin/zsh SLEEPS=180 NTRY=0 FTPDIR='ftp://logname:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:3333/pub/whatever/' WGETPROG=/usr/local/bin/wget until $WGETPROG -v -t 1 -nr -r -np -nc "$FTPDIR" ; do print print -- ======== Attempt $((++NTRY)) failed, sleeping $SLEEPS ======== sleep ${SLEEPS}s print -- awake after $SLEEPS seconds, trying again print done print print -- ======== Attempt $((++NTRY)) succeeded ======== </script> That fails because wget `succeeds' even if login failed on the first try. I am appending a tiny patch post script. I have not studied the wget source enough to know if the patch is sufficient or correct, but it has worked well for me many times over the last several weeks. Hope this helps, Ed Hynan p.s. === begin patch === *** wget-1.8.2-orig/src/ftp.c Fri May 17 23:05:16 2002 --- wget-1.8.2-new/src/ftp.c Tue Jun 18 15:25:51 2002 *************** *** 1701,1707 **** /* ftp_retrieve_glob is a catch-all function that gets called if we need globbing, time-stamping or recursion. Its third argument is just what we really need. */ ! ftp_retrieve_glob (u, &con, (opt.ftp_glob && wild) ? GLOBALL : GETONE); } else --- 1701,1707 ---- /* ftp_retrieve_glob is a catch-all function that gets called if we need globbing, time-stamping or recursion. Its third argument is just what we really need. */ ! res = ftp_retrieve_glob (u, &con, (opt.ftp_glob && wild) ? GLOBALL : GETONE); } else
