simple sheel script?

lilili · 02-11-2006, 07:18 PM

Hi
I'm trying to write a shell script to simply reconnect everytime slapt-get has a timed out.

Get ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...kware-current/ gcc-gnat 3.4.5-i486-1 [8MB]...Failed to download: FTP response timeout
this is the message I get when timed out.

I'm thinking whenever that message shows up, the script will enter slapt-get --upgrade and them answer y when slapt-get ask whether I want to upgrade or not.

How can I do this?

Thank you

bigrigdriver · 02-11-2006, 09:47 PM

Basically, you want a daemon to keep watch on the connection, and reconnect when it times out.

So, the place to start is with the Daemon Writing HOWTO.

jaos · 02-13-2006, 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lilili

Hi
I'm trying to write a shell script to simply reconnect everytime slapt-get has a timed out.

Get ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar...kware-current/ gcc-gnat 3.4.5-i486-1 [8MB]...Failed to download: FTP response timeout
this is the message I get when timed out.

I'm thinking whenever that message shows up, the script will enter slapt-get --upgrade and them answer y when slapt-get ask whether I want to upgrade or not.

How can I do this?

Thank you

You want the --retry option.

Code:

--retry []          - specify number of download retry attempts