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Robin Cornelius wrote: > Simon Waters wrote: >> wget can do a mirror of someone else's site over http, I've used that >> for ripping information out of various sites, as once it is local, it is >> far quicker to hack with grep and friends. > > I need the actual code, its all php files etc and lots of random stuff > that I am not sure you can fetch by http. Once i have control things can > be sorted out properly. AFAIR wget can handle ftp as well >> FTP should die -- it has a lot of issues as a protocol, usually okay >> with some of the good free software ftp servers, but historically ftp >> has been very bad on error reporting. You sure there are no other options? > > Yea its crap, but the server was running proftpd, i think it mostly > might be incompetence of the hosting company causing the issues. I've hacked proftpd a fair bit for various purposes. I don't think it's any more unreliable than any other ftp daemon. Certainly it was quite happy on a site shifting terabytes of data a month. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html