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Old 10-22-2003, 12:16 PM   #1
tyccea
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Question magically vanishing downloads!?


I just read the slashdot article about the FBI's Magic Lantern trojan and headed over to TLDP Guides to download a Securing & Optimizing Linux guide, but...
I tried downloading the older (v. 1.3) HTML version & the new (2.0) one in pdf -- Galeon gives me the download dialogue, but when I look in the directory I'm installing to, it's not there. I logged out of KDE, back in...and neither file is there.

Um... ...guess I did 'something'.
Anyone ever have an issue like this? Oh, I'm writing to a normal user directory, something I have read & write access to. I even checked in the commandline as root - nothing. :/
 
Old 10-22-2003, 12:38 PM   #2
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have you done a

# find / -name <filetosearchfor> -print

as the root user?...

it should be somewhere.....

Anyway I use Download Manager of Netscape for quick and dirty downloads
 
Old 10-22-2003, 12:39 PM   #3
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Use wget, you know exactly where its downloading then..
 
Old 10-24-2003, 04:03 AM   #4
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I just read about wget. That's really cool; you can do pretty much anything from the commandline in Linux.
 
Old 10-24-2003, 09:14 AM   #5
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Originally posted by tyccea
I just read about wget. That's really cool; you can do pretty much anything from the commandline in Linux.
Yup, most of the time the GUI programs you see are just buttons for those commands used on the command line..
 
  


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