Re: FTP Troubles w/ many servers

Does it always die in the same spot? Can you also send the debug output 
where it is dying?

To comment on the list being dormant, I just posted a blurb to the GRAB
homepage. Here is a snippet:


NEWS: GRAB development has stopped!

I have not had the time to maintain GRAB since the RedHat announcement that
they are dropping support of their free Operating Systems. What have I been
doing you ask? Myself and many other community developers have grouped
together to form a new distribution of Linux. This distribution can be
described as a cross between Debian and RedHat (a community managed RPM based
system). It is not Fedora!

The distribution is cAos (http://caosity.org) and development is moving very
fast with the hopes to create a usable distribution for people to migrate
their EOL'ed RedHat systems to.

If someone wishes to continue maintaining GRAB, please contact me and/or the
mailing list.

If you wish to use GRAB, please let me refer you to YUM
(http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/). 


On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:31:01PM -0600, Keller told me:
> I know that this list is fairly dormant, but I hope someone will get
> this who can help me.  I'm currently trying to index a bunch of rpms
> from one server in many directories (in my case, the different
> directories in ftp://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/).  If I try to just
> recursively index that one directory, I get a timeout from grab.  If I
> try to manually input each of the subdirectories (/mandrake, /freshmeat,
> etc) of that directory, then grab runs fine for a while, but inevitably
> gives me a "cannot connect to rpmfind.speakeasy.net" and then ends the
> update.  If I run with debug, I find that it connects to the server fine
> many times and then simply can't.  I assume that it's just an anomaly
> that occurs once in a while, but since I'm updating so many directories,
> occurs once in the many connections that grab makes for my server list. 
> In case it helps, here's the command line I'm using ::
> 
> grab --update -W -debug
> 
> I've also attached my config and servers files, just in case they help. 
> Is there any way to force grab to continue even after it can't connect
> to a server?  Can I setup perl's ftp to retry a server if it's unable to
> connect?  Thanks so much for the help!
> 
> Sincerely, 
> Keller
> 
> 
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